A new evaluation provides an overview of part-time students in Germany. Saxony-Anhalt occupies a mid-table position in the ranking.
Gütersloh/Magdeburg (dpa/sa) – In Saxony-Anhalt there is a lower proportion of part-time students than nationwide. About every 19th student in the country studies part-time. This is the result of an evaluation of figures from the Federal Statistical Office presented on Thursday by the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) in Gütersloh. Accordingly, the proportion of part-time students in Saxony-Anhalt is 5.2 percent and nationwide 7.8 percent.
In a comparison of the federal states, Saxony-Anhalt ranks in the middle. Hamburg has a top rate of part-time students with 21.1 percent, followed by North Rhine-Westphalia (13.3). In Schleswig-Holstein, on the other hand, the rate is only 1.9 percent and in Saarland 0.5 percent. Nationwide, the number of part-time students in Germany has reached a high of 231,000.
According to the evaluation, more than a third of all students study part-time at private universities, compared to only four percent at state institutions. “While the part-time option can often be explicitly chosen as a study model at private universities, it is still the exception at state universities,” explained CHE expert Cort-Denis Hachmeister.
