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The University of Bayreuth is entering the 2024/2025 winter semester with a slight growth in student numbers and, even more important, more international than ever: the number of first-semester students has increased, with the total number of students projected to be around 12,000. Almost 17 percent of them are coming from abroad.

“This means that our internationalization strategy is paying off,” says University President Stefan Leible at the start of the semester: 15 percent of professorships are filled internationally, and almost 25 percent of academic staff come from abroad. Shortly before it turns 50, the University of Bayreuth records a welcome increase in the number of first-semester students, approx.-1,570, and stable student numbers with an estimated total of 11,970. “With over 40 Bachelor's degree programs in German and English and regular top positions in national and international rankings, the University of Bayreuth offers an attractive range of courses for bright young minds after graduation - from all over the world,” says Leible. In the winter semester 2024/25, about half of the students at the University of Bayreuth will come from other German states or from abroad. “For us, internationality is a fundamental prerequisite for future-oriented research and higher education,” says Leible, adding,” which is why we adopted an internationalization strategy as early as 2021.” The result is a significant increase in the number of international applications.

This trend is also reflected at BayBatt and in the associated Master's degree courses Batterietechnik and Battery Materials and Technology: 5 of the 11 BayBatt professorships filled to date have been filled internationally and 10 different nationalities are currently represented among the Master's students.

A joint introductory event was held this morning for the new students of both Master's programmes who are starting their studies in Bayreuth in the winter semester. We are delighted to welcome them to the University of Bayreuth and BayBatt and wish them all the best for their studies!

You can read the entire press release from the University of Bayreuth on the start of the semester here.