36 years of Age, should do Bsc or Msc ?

[sarahmac]

It's amazing how many credit-granting courses are offered by Finnish universities for free.

Tbh the "free, credit-granting" bit is reasonably common in continental Europe. I am in Germany right now and could take classes for free if I wanted. The real USP of the Finnish ones is that they are offered entirely online, including final exams.

The whole "online ed" is something many European universities don't do, because of how exams/classes work here. Unless it is a lab course, as a rule you study in your own time/at your own pace, then you can take the exam at a given day/time on one or two dates per year. Lectures are offered in person but they aren't mandatory. A lot of people will just travel to the university once a semester for the exam sessions. You can do this in Norway, Germany, Sweden, Italy (though they charge a small-ish fee for courses), Finland, and others.

So while education is broadly available freely or cheaply, taking the final exams usually means showing up in person. This is something the Finnish are changing and I am really happy for it.

Germany and Norway are starting to offer more programs online though, especially at the Master's level. I hope this trend continues. Sweden also moved some online but then they started charging for non-EU folks which is less great