Saxon university popular with foreign students

The number of foreign students starting their studies at Saxon universities has increased. Last year, a total of 5369 foreigners began studying at a Saxon university, the State Statistical Office announced in Kamenz on Tuesday. This is about 10 percent more than in the previous year. A total of 17,652 young people would have taken up university studies for the first time - 1.9 percent more than in 2021.

Accordingly, the proportion of foreign students at Saxony's universities in the winter semester 2022/23 is 17.6 percent - 0.4 percentage points more than in the previous year. Over the past ten years, the proportion has risen by more than 6 percentage points, he said. Most come from China, India and Austria.

According to the statistics, last year the number of university students with German citizenship fell by 1.3 percent to 12,283 compared to 2021. A total of 104,875 students were enrolled at Saxon university locations in the current winter semester - 0.9 percent less than the previous year.

In addition, the development of student numbers at the individual types of universities was very heterogeneous. Both the Saxon universities (minus 1.4 percent) and the administrative universities (minus 2.4 percent) recorded a decline in student numbers in the winter semester. At the universities of applied sciences, student numbers remained almost constant compared to the previous year at 26,584. At the Saxon art colleges, an increase of 1.3 percent was registered, according to the statistics.

According to the data, one-third of all students in the winter semester were enrolled in courses of study in the subject group "law, economics and social sciences," followed by the subject group "engineering sciences" (31.4 percent) and "mathematics, natural sciences" (10 percent).