Why do Foreign Students choose Germany and Would they Recommend it to Others?

 

As a foreigner living in Germany, would you recommend others to come and study here? Out of those surveyed 6% of the total wouldn’t recommend Germany at all while 26% would. Worth noting is also that those from Developing countries (20%) were not for the idea as much as those from the developed world (34%) were to recommend Germany as the study destination of choice.

 

Seems Germany is more a destination for postgraduate studies (48%) than for undergraduate studies (45%).

If you ever wondered why people choose Germany, look no further here’s what the student said were their reasons.

 

 

Some of the reasons include:

• Good study conditions
• Academic freedom
• Improve knowledge of German
• Experience other learning and teaching methods
• Achieve technical know-how in a specific field
• Gain experience in research
• Wider choice
• Achieve foreign qualifications
• There was no other choice

 

Some of the thought that lead to students choosing Germany as their destination include:

To experience a different culture

• No tuition fees
• To leave my home country
• You can finance your studies with jobs
• Improve job chances with a German degree
• German Universities have a good reputation
• Germany is high-tech
• My family/home country has very close ties to Germany
• Friends/Family studied in Germany