The number of international students in Germany has topped 300,000 for the first time, according to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
In the winter term spanning 2013-14 there were 300,909 students who did not have German nationality at universities in the country. This was a 6.6 per cent increase compared with the previous year, and bodes well for the government’s plan to increase the number of international students to 350,000 by 2020.
Among first-time students, international student numbers are increasing faster than the number of German students. The increase of 5.8 per cent in the number of first-time international students in this period was 1.6 percentage points more than the increase in the number of German first-time students in the same period, the DAAD explained.
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