Higher education

Number of first semester students up by 16% in the academic year 2011

According to first provisional results, 515,800 first semester students started studying at institutions of higher education in Germany in the academic year 2011 (summer semester 2011 and winter semester 2011/2012). As further reported by the Federal Statistical Office, the number of first semester students thus increased by 16% compared with 2010. At 23%, the number of male first semester students rose much more than that of female first semester students (+9%).

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