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Sammanfattning

This paper analyses education regarding its profitability from an individual’s perspective. The method for conducting the analysis is an ex ante cost-benefit analysis and the time period examined is between the days the education begins until retirement age. The conclusions of this paper are that tertiary education is not profitable for an individual given the conditions stated in this examination. Furthermore the longer the education lasts, the more unprofitable it is. Although it does not mean that this paper recommends individuals not to achieve higher education. Some determining factors have merely partially been included in the examination, as well as some time-periods have been omitted. Therefore, to give a definite answer to the question stated for this paper is not possible.