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		Tombone5 on Oct 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Countries where Americans can study at universitie... The article explicitly mentions that only PhD studies are free in Sweden (for non-EU citizens).

arnsholt on Oct 29, 2014 [–]

To say that PhD studies in Sweden (and the rest of the Nordics) are free is a bit of a mdisnomer though. PhD students in the Nordics are bona fide paid employees, and the salary is a perfectly de3cent public sector wage (that is, more than enough to live on).

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