Foreign students in Germany in total

In the winter semester 2022/23, around 458,000 foreign students were enrolled at German universities. Foreign students are all students with foreign citizenship. A distinction is made here between Bildungsauslaender and Bildungsinlaender. The former are foreign students who have acquired their higher education entrance qualification at a school abroad (this also includes German schools abroad) or who have supplemented their school qualifications acquired abroad with a German preparatory college. Bildungsinlaender are foreign students who obtained their higher education entrance qualification at a school in Germany, i.e. who did not come to Germany to study. Internationally mobile students in the true sense of the word are therefore only foreign students. The drop-down menus can be used to select the periods to be analysed and to select or deselect the foreign student groups.