More than 100,000 foreign first-semester students in 2013
Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, compared with the previous year, their number increased by 5.8% to over 100,000 for the first time ever.
On the whole, 507,100 first-semester students started studying at German institutions of higher education in the academic year 2013.
This was an increase of 2.4% on a year earlier.
For further information:
Miriam Wolters,
tel: (+49-611) 75-4140,
www.destatis.de/contact
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