University of Tübingen: University of Tübingen has a record number of international students

The University of Tübingen is becoming increasingly popular with international students. As of mid-November, the university had a total of 4,165 students without a German passport, a new record. In the current winter semester, the proportion of international students is 14.7 percent. The total number of enrolled students increased by 207 or 0.7 percent to 28,366.

However, the total number of new students fell by 7.2 percent to 5,035. The reason for this is a disproportionate decline in German first and new enrollments of 11.5 percent. In contrast, the number of international first-year students rose by 9.7 percent to 1,195.

“In the student statistics for the 2022/23 winter semester, we see various, sometimes opposing trends,” said the rector of the university, Professor Karla Pollmann: “On the one hand, we registered a large number of over 23,000 replies. This leads to the conclusion that, as a result of the corona pandemic, students are still taking longer to graduate.”

“On the other hand, the effects of demographic change are evident in first-semester students with German citizenship,” explained Pollmann. According to calculations by the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, the number of high school graduates nationwide will drop to under 300,000 per year by the middle of the decade, only to then slowly rise again.

“It is now paying off for the University of Tübingen that we have been actively recruiting students from abroad for several years, especially in the areas of master’s degrees and doctorates,” said the rector: “We not only want to be successful in research, but also in the Study bring the best minds nationally and internationally to the University of Tübingen.” Among other things, a large number of international courses that can be studied entirely or largely in English serve this purpose.