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Article: German Universities Ranked Third Worldwide as Destination for Foreign Students.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- September 9, 2008
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Germany attracted 246,000 international students in 2007, outranked only by the United States (590,200) and Great Britain (318,400), according to the 2008 edition of the survey "Wissenschaft - weltoffen," co-edited by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (see also German Embassy).
In 2007, 12.5 percent of all university students in Germany came from abroad. Almost a third (32 percent) of the foreign students registered at a German university is of Chinese origin, closely followed by students from Eastern European countries (31 percent), mainly Bulgarians and Poles. The survey on the internationalization of German universities shows that the number of ...