| 4.2.1 |
| Foreign doctoral students enrolled at German higher education
institutions, by the 50 most popular higher education institutions in 2009 |
| Rank |
Names of the German higher education institutions |
Number |
| 1 |
U Heidelberg |
814 |
| 2 |
FU Berlin
| 750 |
| 3 |
Humboldt-U Berlin |
689 |
| 4 |
U Göttingen |
675 |
| 5 |
TH Aachen |
654 |
| 6 |
U Köln |
539 |
| 7 |
U München |
536 |
| 8 |
U Bonn |
531 |
| 9 |
TU Dresden |
501 |
| 10 |
TU Berlin |
495 |
| 11 |
U Hamburg |
468 |
| 12 |
U Frankfurt a.M. |
467 |
| 13 |
U Münster |
464 |
| 14 |
U Freiburg i.Br. |
392 |
| 15 |
U Stuttgart |
382 |
| 16 |
U Tübingen |
377 |
| 17 |
U Bochum |
376 |
| 18 |
U Hannover |
365 |
| 19 |
U Leipzig |
340 |
| 20 |
U Potsdam |
338 |
| 21 |
U des Saarlandes Saarbrücken |
335 |
| 22 |
U Gießen |
312 |
| 23 |
U Duisburg-Essen |
279 |
| 24 |
U Bremen |
260 |
| 25 |
U Dortmund |
255 |
| 26 |
U Halle insg. |
251 |
| 27 |
U Mainz insg. |
250 |
| 28 |
TU Braunschweig |
248 |
| 29 |
U Kiel |
247 |
| 30 |
U Magdeburg |
223 |
| 31 |
U Marburg |
214 |
| 32 |
U Jena |
204 |
| 33 |
U Würzburg |
202 |
| 34 |
U Bielefeld |
201 |
| 35 |
TU Darmstadt |
201 |
| 36 |
TU München |
181 |
| 37 |
Jacobs University Bremen (Priv. H) |
172 |
| 38 |
U Rostock |
170 |
| 39 |
U Düsseldorf |
164 |
| 40 |
U Konstanz |
158 |
| 41 |
U Siegen |
149 |
| 42 |
U Karlsruhe |
138 |
| 43 |
U Bayreuth |
129 |
| 44 |
U Wuppertal |
128 |
| 45 |
Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
123 |
| 46 |
U Greifswald |
123 |
| 47 |
U Regensburg |
112 |
| 48 |
U Paderborn |
110 |
| 49 |
TU Kaiserslautern |
109 |
| 50 |
U Erlangen-Nürnberg |
109 |
|
Higher education institutions in total |
17856 |
| 2009 = winter semester 2008/2009 |
| Source: Student Statistics Federal Statistical Office; HIS
computations |
