Students
Berlin is the largest student city in Germany with almost 197,000 students and has a total of four universities, six technical colleges and more than 30 privately-run academies. The "Berlin University Alliance" of Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität and Technische Universität was recognized as an Excellence Alliance.
With its internationally renowned technical colleges, Berlin is also the most popular location for science for foreign students: nearly 24 percent of the students come from abroad, most of them from China, India and Turkey, among others. Women make up 51.7 percent of all students in Berlin.
(Source: Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office, 2024 (foreign figures as of 2022))