Recently, Germany has caught the attention of International students. Students from all over the world prefer Germany for doing their postgraduation. Germany is considered as an educational paradise with top ranked universities, countless undergraduate and postgraduate programs to choose from, globally valued degrees that assure a high employability ratio and affordable living. In addition, Germany is a place of long and affluent heritage, a vibrant and dynamic lifestyle mixing the modern and tradition, the urban and the rural which will make you fall in love with the country for each and every second you spent there. With a unique combination of great universities and high quality of life, Germany is one of the best countries and to study abroad for Indian students.

It’s not at all surprising that Germany is ranked among the world’s top destinations for International students. According to the current official statistics over 357,000 foreign students are seeking a university degree in Germany whereas the number is consistently uprising. Every year thousands of scholars entrust their education to German universities and reasons for this are very much clear.

Why Germany?

One of the main reasons for which Germany is becoming a magnet for International students is that Germany provides education for free of cost or for low tuition fees. With high level of professional competition around the world, Germany is the only best option which offers students the top education in the top universities with free of cost or with low tuition fee.

In connection with having a large number of universities, Germany offers innumerable degree courses planned in a way that that suits the taste of everyone’s interests. As an industrialized country Germany has invested a lot in Engineering universities and recently Engineering programs are particularly much valued at German universities. There are a lot more study programs offered by these universities.

Why is the German higher education free?

Study schemes planned by the German universities are contemporary in terms of their structure and the way they are delivering to the students. They have come up with the most updated scientific developments happening in the world and to educate students who can confidently face global challenges. Germans generally believe that education is not a product to be sold and that they make sure to give free access to education for everyone. Their access to higher education ensures economic progress and welfare of the society. Moreover, Germany’s government of recent years have understood the socio-economic benefits of inviting a greater number of International students. Germany government wants the most efficient people to come to their country for their e socio-economic benefits and ideally to stay in their country and to work after graduation. This is the main reason why the universities of German are not charging any fees for the education. Today, there are only very few exceptions where public universities can charge tuition fees. These rules are same even for everyone who come out to Germany to study. Never assume that if the tuition fee is free, the quality of education which they are delivering will be of no worth. Universities of Germany are always ranked among the top universities in the world and who-ever who comes here for education will receive world class education as a foreign student. Many of the larger institutions regularly rank among the top 100 in international rankings. A degree from German university will be respected around the world and open many incredible choices for your career.

Is there any other expense payable to the University if there is no tuition fee?

While there are usually no tuition fees at public universities but you normally have to pay a small amount as semester fees or administrative fees. But that will be quite a small amount merely 300 or 400 euros for the whole semester. With a bit of smart financial spending plans and little changes in your old spendthrift life style you can easily live in Germany without much expenses quite affordably. Normally just like everywhere the cost of living in urban area is little more than living in rural ones.

Getting part-time jobs in Germany

Even though if you consider the living expenses in Germany are high there are lot more options for foreign students to work part-time for up to 20 hours a week or 120 full days of a year, and there are many foreign students who is utilizing this work opportunity that is purposefully planned for international students. There is no need for a qualification at first place because wide variety of part time jobs are available in Germany for students. If you are lucky enough you can find a job easily as it is. Commonly, most students in Germany work as tutors, administrative staff, bartenders etc.

Working part-time along with studying is an option you must seriously consider in Germany, because it will make sure that you may not need extra money to cope with living costs. Your working experience alone may increase your future employability and it will add changes to your current life style and live independently with self-respect.

There are almost 300 public universities in Germany and there are more than 1000 study programs in total.

Some of the largest public universities include:

• University of Cologne
• Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
• Goethe University Frankfurt
• RWTH Aachen University
• University of Munster
• Ruhr University Bochum
• University of Wurzburg
• University of Duisburg-Essen
• Universitat Hamburg
• Technical University of Munich

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