Germany: New Overseas Education Destination For Indians Students

BANGALORE: Gaining educational knowledge is an essential part of our life. With growing globalization and a need to be on terms with global standards, the number of students going abroad for learning and gaining a foreign degree is drastically increasing, especially for a country like Germany. Following these developments there has also been a rise in student enrollment of more than 100 percent  in 5 years, reports M Ramya of TNN.
For increasing number of Indians, Germany has emerging as the most favored higher education destination as against some of the other overseas destinations like the U.S., UK and Australia. According to the latest details released by the German Academic Exchange Service, there has been 114 percent increase in the number of Indian students enrolling for higher education courses there since 2008.
Out of the above percent the number of student enrollment has increased from 3,516 in the 2008-09 academic year to 7,532 in 2012-13. And Germany, which has the fifth biggest Indian student population on campuses, has also broke the shekels by introducing courses in English and easing visa norms to allow students to look for jobs after completion of studies.
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When it comes to choosing professions, engineering courses are the most chosen area of study for nearly half the number close to 48 percent, followed by mathematics and natural sciences at 19.8 percent. Other preferred courses like Information technology, law, economics and social sciences were some of the further courses sought after by Indian students in Germany.
Franziska Lindhout, director of the DAAD Information Centre in Chennai, said, "Its least taken up by those in Germany, and the country needs students in these areas, so Germany is interested in cooperation with Indian technical higher educational institutions." She further added that, "It's no longer a prerequisite to learn German to study there. We invite Indian students to pick up the language to help them adapt better and for jobs, But it is not required to pursue a masters or for the visa procedure. It is part of the internationalization process, and DAAD has been pushing for it."
Along with this Germany has also made a mindful effort to encourage Indian students by sponsoring initiatives and since 2009, 46 new co-operation projects have been formed between the Indian and German universities.
Padmavathi Chandramouli, information manager of DAAD centre said, "There are few English-medium UG courses to choose from in Germany and the school finals in India are not equivalent to that offered in Germany. But, now there are many masters programmes offered in English."
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