Press release No. 079 of 28 February 2022
WIESBADEN – In 2021, roughly 395,000 pupils in Germany attained the qualification to enter a university or university of applied sciences. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a 3.5% increase in the number of persons qualified to enter higher education compared with a year earlier (+13,200). The main reason for that increase is the strong growth in Niedersachsen caused by the return to the nine-year course of education at grammar schools. The discontinuation of the eight-year course of education had led to markedly fewer qualifications to enter higher education in 2020, while this effect has now been offset.
