Press release No. 133 of 17 March 2021
WIESBADEN – A total of 488,600 new entrants enrolled at institutions of higher education in Germany in the academic year 2020 (summer semester 2020 and winter semester 2020/2021). That was a decrease of 20,100, or 4%, compared with the academic year of 2019. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of foreign first semester students declined by 21% to 99,400 compared with the previous year. At the same time, the number of German first semester students increased by 2% to 389,200.
