Press Winter semester 2021/22: number of occasional students at higher education institutions up 4% on the previous year

Attendance figures still markedly below the pre-Covid-19 level

Press release No. 214 of 24 May 2022

WIESBADEN – In the winter semester of 2021/22, 27,400 occasional students attended courses and lectures at German institutions of higher education. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 4% from the winter semester 2020/21 (26,300), but a 26% decline compared with the winter semester of 2019/20 (37,200).

Long time series on occasional students are available in Tables 21331-0001 to 21331-0002 in the GENESIS-Online database.

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