Germany keeps a niche by attracting Indian students regardless of the COVID crisis. The admission season commenced last month and, according to the German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD, India tops the list of foreign applicants with over 8,300 applying for various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in German universities.

As per Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) I-Gauge study published in May this year, Indian students mostly prefer the USA (30.27%) for higher education followed by the UK with 15.84 percent and Germany is at the third position with 14.33 percent.

According to recent figures released by Uni-Assist, an association of German universities, and DAAD, almost 60,000 prospective international students from over 180 countries, have applied for the winter semester 2020. This is around 80 percent of the 2019-20 figure, showing that in spite of the pandemic, German higher education continues to draw students. Indians form the second-largest group of foreign students in Germany.

Notably, India sends the second-largest number of students to foreign countries for education, behind only China. More than 7.8 lakh students went abroad in 2018 followed by 6.2 lak, excluding the UK in 2019 for higher education, the Ministry of Education told Lok Sabha in November 2019.

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