Higher education dating site

The Government believes that Swedish higher education should compete in terms of quality and good conditions, not just by providing free education.

To enable students who cannot pay tuition fees to study in Sweden, the Government has allocated resources for two scholarship programmes.

The second programme, worth SEK 60 million, is aimed at highly qualified students from outside the EU/EEA area, barring Switzerland.

Grants in this programme are intended to cover tuition fees and are awarded through the Swedish Council for Higher Education to universities and university colleges that already extend grants to students.

When assessing a future partner, do we rank education as important criteria for success of the match?

Age, appearance, intelligence, social status and chemistry are fundamental. Researchers used an online dating field experiment to look closer at the issue, with fascinating results.

However, in the autumn of 2011 tuition fees were introduced for students from outside the EU/EEA area, with the exception of Switzerland.

Visits to profile summaries from real accounts, which outlined education and income statistics, were counted.

Statistics for men visiting women weren't affected by the educational level of the woman.

On the other hand, visits to men, from women of all educational levels, increased when the male profile had a higher education level, and grew even more so when paired with greater income.

More highly educated women visiting men were more commonly clicking on male profiles with higher incomes.