There are about 1.7 million students enrolled in some 300 tertiary educational institutions in Germany.
About 80 percent of the students are enrolled in the Universitäten and Gesamthochschulen . About half of the Universitäten have more than 10,000 students. The five largest Universitäten (Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Munster and Hamburg) have enrollments of over 40,000 students, and account for one-fouth of the total student population.
Approximately 300,000 students attend the Fachhochschulen , and another 20,000 are enrolled in 30 Kunsthochschulen and Musikhochschulen .
There are about seventy-five thousand international students in Germany. They represent about six percent of the total student population.
The average age of German university students is twenty-seven. Most of them have spent a year in either military or social service. As a result, they generally begin university study with definite academic and professional plans and goals.
And because the required general courses have been completed in Gymnasium , they enter a course of study which is often single-subject from the first semester. Even courses such as Law are taught from the first semester of university study in the German system. German students, therefore, tend to concentrate on their academic and professional preparation.
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