Foreign student drop-outs

Foreign student drop-outs are male or female foreign first-year students enrolled in a first degree course who fail to successfully complete their studies, i.e. who fail to pass a final examination at a German higher education institution.

The available data make it difficult to determine the student drop-out rate as a proportion of first-year students among a specific age cohort who fail to graduate as planned in Germany, and so can only be given as an approximate value.

see: Student drop-out rate

It is possible to differentiate between two categories of foreign student drop-outs, namely male or female Bildungsauslaender student drop-outs and Bildungsinlaender student drop-outs. It is estimated that around half the Bildungsauslaender first-year students taking a first degree course at a higher education institution discontinue/drop out from their studies.

see: Foreign students

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