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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe are very aware that this number may go up because of the current situation elsewhere,\u201d Ackermann said, adding: \u201cOver the past couple of months, applications across the state-owned universities have gone up 35%.\u201d<\/p>\n
Going by data presented in response to a question in Parliament last year, Germany is among the top five countries for Indian students studying abroad, standing fifth after Canada, the USA, the UK, and Australia.<\/p>\n
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Data shared by Katja Lasch, Director, Regional Office New Delhi, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), shows that the number of Indian students enrolled in German universities rose from 13,740 in 2015-16 to 25,149 in 2019-20, and further to 49,483 in 2023-24.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe German education system is a public good, which means most universities don\u2019t charge for studies. And if they charge\u2026 the fee is rather limited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cautioning Indian students, Ackermann said: \u201cWe see aggressive recruitment by some institutions in Germany who work with agents. My appeal to Indian students is\u2026 don\u2019t use agents. Go individually for the choice of universities. It is easy, and the websites are good. There is no need to pay money to expensive agents who direct you on the wrong path.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ackermann also said, \u201cGermany needs skilled labour and those who have graduated from German universities have, of course, a greater chance of joining the labour market than others\u2026 we are looking for the smartest and the brightest.\u201d He said that those who have studied the STEM subjects have \u201ceven better chances in the labour market\u201d and pointed to \u201cample opportunities across the board\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Lasch said that Germany offers 2300 study programmes in English. She also said that German knowledge remains important for those who want to enter the labour market in the country.<\/p>\n
On whether German universities are interested after the University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations allowing international universities to set up campuses in India, Lasch said: \u201cWe are well aware of the regulations\u2026 German public universities are not seeing education as a business, and it is very expensive to set up a campus abroad\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Based on visa numbers, The Indian Express<\/a> reported in April that for the first time in four years, the number of Indian students heading to foreign universities has simultaneously declined across the top three destination countries \u2014 Canada, the USA, and the UK. This dip comes in the wake of measures by countries like Canada and the UK, including caps on student intake and restrictions on dependent visas, in response to concerns about housing pressures or the impact of a large international student population on public services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German Ambassador on Tuesday reassured Indian students that the country is \u201ca reliable partner\u201d and said that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[20816,2000,299,1824,8152,67393,72104],"class_list":{"0":"post-174197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-donald-trump-administration","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-indian-express","13":"tag-indian-students-in-germany","14":"tag-philipp-ackermann-german-ambassador"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114661711355559334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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