That's not quite true, as there are still semester's fees, but you are right in that there are no further tuition fees. But this has always been the case after WWII, with a brief difference during the mid 2000 years, when they were rearranging the whole system due to the Bologna protocol.
Whether this has been an advantage or not, is debatable, and according to different political povs you're gonna hear vastly different opinions on that.
But this hasn't been the subject of the original poster anyway.
@ Demonicon: One of my pps has seriously started to learn German (I didn't force it on to him, hewanted to do so. But he has still a few years to go in the system, so, much too early for an IT education now. But let's talk about it a few years from now when he will be released. (Er hat mir schon Löcher in den Bauch gefragt, Leben in Deutschland und Schule und Ausbildung betreffend, also: Mal abwarten). ;-)
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That's not quite true, as there are still semester's fees, but you are right in that there are no further tuition fees. But this has always been the case after WWII, with a brief difference during the mid 2000 years, when they were rearranging the whole system due to the Bologna protocol.