Greece at 19th place in number of students at German universities

Greece ranks 19th among the states with foreign students in German universities, with 6,886 students studying in the country for the academic year 2022-2023, according to recent data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

The data was presented by the German-Hellenic Business Association, saying that India is in first place with 43,000 students, followed by China with 42,000, Turkey with 25,000, Syria with 21,000, Austria with 17,000 and Italy with 15,000.

Over the last 15 years the number of Greek students in Germany has been consistently above 5,000. Starting in 2008, the number was just over 5,000. In 2014 it exceeded 7,000 and in 2017 it was close to 8,000. Of these, in 2017 almost 600 students were studying with scholarships from the German state, while in 2022 about 1,500 Greeks were studying...