Many are those that know about Parthenon and life in ancient Greece, but few those that know about Byzantine empire and life in modern Greece. Of course the population of the beautiful country is doubled in the period from spring to autumn because of the tourism. General is attracting a great number of students that face it as a mean to enter the university. An interesting phenomenon that is appearing only in Greece is the great number of small private schools consisted to even two and three teachers that help students to enter the university.
University education is free and in the most cases books are free too.
There are about eight universities spread around continental Greece or the islands but the most well-known are in Athens, Thessaloniki and Crete. Technical colleges as well as branches of the universities can be found in nearly every city. In Greece psychology is taught in four universities. If we had to make a rather general evaluation about the level of offered studies, taking in account the curriculum, number of teachers, research done at each university, and the material conditions the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki appears to be far ahead of the other two of its kind, and more or less the same as Crete. Last but not least a very good standard of social psychology has been acquired by the Pantios University of Political Science in Athens.