Heidelberg University Increasingly Attractive for Students
28 11 2008
Overall student figures up by 3.3 percent over last year — 11.6 percent increase in first-year students — Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer: “Heidelberg University sees this as a major success and as a confirmation for the efforts undertaken to attract the best students”
Heidelberg University is increasingly attractive for students. According to the available figures for the current winter semester, student numbers have risen to a total of 27,629. This tops last year’s total by 3.3%. The figures for the newly enrolled students are even more gratifying. Here the University has improved its last year’s showing by 11.6% with 5,211 first-year students, as many as in the record year 2005. The number of first-year law students is particularly high, 352 over and against 239 last year.
“Heidelberg University sees this as a major success and as a confirmation for the efforts undertaken to attract the best students,” commented Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer, vice-Rector for teaching and communication, in Heidelberg today. “But we have engineered this increase on the understanding that the state government will be providing resources for new professorships, notably in law, to cope with the doubling of the number of school-leavers in 2012. We expect the state government to honour these undertakings and are confident that this will be the case.”
Please address any inquiries to
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer
Vice-Rector for Teaching and Communication
Heidelberg University
Grabengasse 1
D-69117 Heidelberg
pfeiffer@rektorat.uni-heidelberg.de
Dr. Michael Schwarz
Public Information Officer
Heidelberg University
michael.schwarz@rektorat.uni-heidelberg.de
Irene Thewalt
phone: 06221/542310, fax: 542317
presse@rektorat.uni-heidelberg.de
“Heidelberg University sees this as a major success and as a confirmation for the efforts undertaken to attract the best students,” commented Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer, vice-Rector for teaching and communication, in Heidelberg today. “But we have engineered this increase on the understanding that the state government will be providing resources for new professorships, notably in law, to cope with the doubling of the number of school-leavers in 2012. We expect the state government to honour these undertakings and are confident that this will be the case.”
Please address any inquiries to
Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer
Vice-Rector for Teaching and Communication
Heidelberg University
Grabengasse 1
D-69117 Heidelberg
pfeiffer@rektorat.uni-heidelberg.de
Dr. Michael Schwarz
Public Information Officer
Heidelberg University
michael.schwarz@rektorat.uni-heidelberg.de
Irene Thewalt
phone: 06221/542310, fax: 542317
presse@rektorat.uni-heidelberg.de
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