Press Academic year 2022: 10% more foreign first semester students

New entrants totalling 474,900 in the academic year 2022: +0.5% on the previous year

Press release No. 097 of 10 March 2023

WIESBADEN – A total of 474,900 new entrants enrolled at institutions of higher education in Germany in the academic year of 2022 (summer semester 2022 and winter semester 2022/2023). Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 2,500, or 0.5%, compared with the academic year of 2021 but roughly 7% less than in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic (508,700).
The foreign first semester students alone accounted for the slight increase in the number of first entrants. Their number increased by 10% to 128,500 year on year and exceeded even the pre-pandemic level of 2019 (125,400).

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