
Institutions of higher education are places of high-quality training and research and are key initiators of innovation in our country, which make a decisive contribution towards securing progress and prosperity. Germany has 394 institutions of higher education: of which 104 are universities, 6 colleges of education, 14 colleges of theology, 51 colleges of art, 189 universities of applied sciences and 30 colleges of public administration. According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office, there were over 1.996 million students in the 2008/2009 Winter Semester, approximately 48% of whom were women. Approximately two thirds of all students are registered at universities; just under 29 % attend a university of applied sciences. The number of first-year students reached a record high in the 2008/2009 academic year with over 386,500 new students. Since the introduction of the "Higher Education Pact 2020" in 2007, the share of first-year students in Germany as a percentage of a year group has risen by more than 2% to 39.1%
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in the version published on 19 January 1999 (BGBl. I p. 18), last amended by Article 1 of the same law on 28 August 2004 (BGBl. I p. 2298), taking into consideration the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court of 27 July 2004 (URL: http://www.bmbf.de/pubRD/hrg_20050126_e.pdf)
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The German Academic Exchange Service DAAD has published the english version of its university ranking, encompassing 35 subjects in 280 universties.
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