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Clusters of excellence, graduate schools and Excellence
Initiative institutional strategies
Kiel
Lübeck
U
Bremen
JU
Oldenburg
Hamburg
HU
MedH
Münster
Berlin
LU
Hanover
TU
FU
Bielefeld
Düsseldorf
Göttingen
Bochum
Cologne
Aachen
Giessen
Jena
Chemnitz
Dresden
Bonn
Bayreuth
Frankfurt
Würzburg
Mainz
Institutional strategy
Graduate school
Cluster of excellence
Co-applicants
Bamberg
Darmstadt
Kaiserslautern
Mannheim
Saarbrücken
Erlangen-Nuremberg
Heidelberg
Regensburg
Karlsruhe
Stuttgart
Tübingen
Augsburg
Ulm
Freiburg
TU
Munich
Konstanz
LMU
U
TU
HU
LU
JU
FU
LMU
MedH
University
Technical University
Humboldt-Universität
Leibniz-Universität
Jacobs University
Freie Universität
Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ.
Medical school
education institutions, among them 301,350
lish-speaking host country for interna-
with a non-German passport: 218,848 students
tional students. Only the USA and Great
who gained their university entrance quali-
Britain are more attractive. The technical
fication abroad and 82,502 foreigners with a
universities have a particularly good repu-
German entrance qualification (Abitur).
tation for training engineers – 25 percent of
freshmen there are international students.
Since 2011 the total number of students has
risen by 18 percent, the number of interna-
At the same time the German higher educa-
tional students by almost 20 percent in the
tion institutions have increased the number
same period. Today there are twice as many
of
foreigners enrolled at German universities
courses to 1,104. The multitude of struc-
as in 1996. Most international students
tured doctoral courses is particularly at-
come from China, Russia, and India. This
tractive for international doctoral students.
makes Germany the most popular non-Eng-
The fact that for the most part most German
foreign-language
and
international