Tuition payments

To get an idea of the incredible economic potential of providing university services to foreign students it's worth looking at an extreme example. Imagine a small territory of about 350,000 people which decides to invest hugely in universities. In three years it manages to boost the already large number of 45,000 foreign students to 100,000, who are studying at 16 universities.

Students from the EU could be loaned more than £13,000 a year for tuition fees by the UK after Brexit.

Officials are understood to be in discussions which could lead to the offer to European students at British universities to stop their numbers plunging.

The beginning of 2017-2018 academic year will see the tuition fees for certain BA and MA programs of some state universities across the country go up by 13.6%, reported Standart News.

The increase is also for the medical schools, Varna Medical University is the only one to set higher tuition fees for its programs Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry. The increase is by BGN 300 a year.

Istanbul Kent University will for the first time this year accept students and provide a 50 percent discount on tuition fees, with the discount going up to 80 percent for female students who list the university among their top 5 choices. 

The American Community Schools (ACS) of Athens has announced a new three-year scholarship that will provide one student entering the 10th grade a chance to prepare for university at one of Greece's best international schools.

Statista examines the best university experience from around the world. The QS Best Student Cities 2015 report assesses cities based on several factors including their “student mix”, “desirability” and “employer activity”.

Albanian MPs will get to vote on a controversial higher education law on July 2 - conveniently after universities have closed for the summer vacation and the students have gone home.

The students gathered on Monday at the campus of the Polytechnic University and then moved toward the offices of parliament in Tirana's Heroes' of the Nation Boulevard, holding banners and chanting the slogan, "the reform will not pass".

Protesting students and professors from the University of Tirana staged a  march in the centre of Tirana, urging the government to withdraw a proposed reform of higher education, calling it a sell-out to private sector interests and harmful for public universities.

Future medics and pharmacists are the largest group, applying for student loans in Bulgaria, shows a survey of the Postbank, quoted by Pariteni.bg.

They are 16% of all applicants since September 2013. Tuition fees for those studying medicine, pharmacy and architecture are the highest in Bulgarian universities.