Students
Berlin is the largest student city in Germany with more than 206,000 students and has a total of four universities, five universities of applied sciences and more than 30 privately-run academies. The "Berlin University Alliance" of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin was recognized as an Excellence Alliance.
With its internationally renowned technical colleges, Berlin is also the most popular location for science for foreign students: More than 25 percent of the students come from abroad, most of them from India, China and Turkey, among others. Women make up 51 percent of all students in Berlin.
(Source: Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office, 2026)
Why Berlin?
„The economic success of any company depends on its employees and their qualifications. We certainly benefit from the extraordinary scientific know-how in Berlin, which is the direct result of the city's many institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutes.“
