From year to year, the number of foreign students who have chosen a German education is growing. The country can offer comfortable conditions, a high level of security, ethno-cultural diversity and a wide range of opportunities, local universities and research centers occupy high positions in prestigious international rankings, and the corresponding line in the resume opens the doors of high offices for its owner and provides excellent opportunities to make a career.
Education in the country as a whole is quite practical. In the sense that it is practice-oriented. While the French, Spaniards and Eastern Europeans are engaged in general erudition in the first years of their universities, the German is intensively looking for ways to apply the acquired skills and competencies to find a job, and the university diligently helps him.
By the way, Germany is a great country to make a career! Especially the early one. Here are the offices of the largest national (and in cities such as Hamburg, Berlin, Nuremberg and Munich – also international) companies, and these are opportunities for internships, and early employment (yes, German companies are really hunting for the best of the best).
Combining work and study
Yes! In Germany, you can work and study. You can also come to the country to learn German and enroll in a free program at a state university — in German, they are almost all free.
Any type of student visa allows you to work up to 20 hours per week during your studies and twice as much during the holidays and in the summer. There are many jobs in Germany - both very simple, for part-time work, and highly qualified. Very soon, the already quite loyal legislation on migrants will make the country even more attractive, especially given the persistent shortage in some German states (for example, in Baden-Württemberg, there is a shortage of almost a thousand doctors, six hundred school teachers and several thousand engineers of various profiles).
In 2025, the Germans will launch an integration program designed to help foreign students integrate into society and find a job. Two departments are responsible for this program - the Ministry of Education of the Federal Republic of Germany and the DAAD. Within its framework, it is planned to help talented students in their studies, adapt them to the domestic labor market, that is, "tempt" them to stay in the country instead of returning to their historical homeland. They will also develop a system of student internships: if now you have to look for an internship company throughout the country, now the federal government is going to finance 25 regional university projects with a total capacity of up to 40,000 jobs annually.
You can travel
Germany has a very good location: it is located right in the center of Europe, at the intersection of many road, bus and rail routes, there are several international airports. All this, multiplied by the Schengen visa, allows young Germans and foreign students to combine university studies with travel throughout Europe. And in Germany itself, there is something to look at!
By the way, numerous German language schools and centers often offer their students weekend trips to cities such as Vienna, Innsbruck and Salzburg, Prague and Bratislava, Warsaw and Krakow, Paris, Strasbourg. For two or three days, you can go to the southern coast of France or to Northern Italy, to Denmark and (through an ingenious system of bridges and tunnels) to neighboring Sweden. And that's not to mention the German Baltic Sea coast or the Rhine valley with vineyards and castles!
A life full of events
Do not think that in Germany you can only study, work and look at the ancient ruins. Not at all! Germany is a huge country with a rich history and an ancient, diverse culture. Every day, here and there, local holidays or concerts and festivals of international class are held with hundreds of thousands of spectators and participants, and life does not stop in winter: in every, even small German town, Christmas markets are celebrated with might and main.
The cultural life of Berlin is especially rich in events and activities. Of course, the main financial flows are concentrated in the capital, half of German festivals, exhibitions and many other events take place here! The other two epicenters of German culture (not without their own, unique regional specifics) are Rhine-Westphalia, which for many years was forced to play the role of the forge, granary and bond of West Germany, and old Catholic Bavaria. However, in Saxony, Thuringia, and in Hanover or Pomerania, life does not stop for a moment.
Whichever place you choose to study, you'll have a wide range of opportunities. Study, have fun, learn history or literature, enjoy music, make a career, chew on the granite of science or prepare to conquer Mount Everest – in Germany you can do all this and a little more.
