California is in the US, not Europe.<p>Your hypothesis is: &quot;If students are subsidized then colleges will lose incentive to provide a proper education&quot;.<p>I showed many examples where that is not true. Some are in Europe. Some were in the US. There are still schools in the US which are tuition free, or in the case of Cooper Union, had no tuition until recently.<p>Your followup comment now concerns a different topic. While it&#x27;s an important one to answer, it is only indirectly related to being able to &#x27;provide a proper education&#x27; as we have the existence proof that the University of California system provided an excellent free college education.