Education In Germany

Germany is the powerhouse of Europe, and the third-largest economy in the world. The German System of Higher Education has a lot to offer. It is one of the oldest world-wide - some German universities are more than 600 years old. More than 65 Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein, were educated at German universities.

Nowadays however, the custom in Germany of students moving from university to university during their studies, the exaggerated period of study and swelling numbers have overstretched the traditional structures; hence over the past couple of years, there has been much deliberation about the financing and organisation of the future of higher education in Germany. There are over 300 institutions of higher education; of these, more than 100 are universities and technical universities, more than 150 'Fachhochschulen' (universities of applied science), and more than 50 colleges of art and music. These institutions have about 1.8 million students (one third of all young Germans).

The system has become even more attractive to foreign students, since there are now undergraduate and graduate courses in German universities that are internationally accredited, leading to Bachelor and Master degrees. Many of these courses are taught in English, including those in the fields of engineering, natural science and business studies.