Press release No. 337 of 2 September 2020
WIESBADEN – In the examination year 2019 (winter semester 2018/2019 and summer semester 2019), roughly 512,000 graduates obtained a higher education degree at German institutions of higher education. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 3% on the previous year (499,000). Thus the most recent development corresponds again to the long-term trend of increasing graduate numbers, which has been observed since 2001. A temporary year-on-year decline in the number of higher education degrees was only seen in 2018 (-1%).
More detailed data and long time series are available in tables Statistics of examinations 21321 in the GENESIS-Online database.
