Qualification

SAXONY IS GERMANY’S LEADER IN EDUCATION

In 2022 as well, Saxony defended its first place in a comparison of the educational systems of all German federal states – already for the seventeenth time in a row now! This was reported by the Education Monitor 2022, a comparative study conducted by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) on behalf of the Initiative for a New Social Market Economy (INSM).

Saxony scored high points in most of the 12 fields under investigation. Saxony achieved the top position with a total of 65.9 points.

Saxony exhibits specific strong points, for example, in the categories Support Infrastructure, Overall School Quality, Research Orientation (in each instance, 1st place) as well as Avoiding Educational Deprivation, and Internationalization (in each instance, 2nd place).

The business model Germany is based on high tech branches with strong export activities. That’s why it is so important to train and educate a sufficient number of MINT specialists. Towards this end, Saxony is Germany’s incubator for engineers. This is due to the high proportion of graduates in engineering sciences among all graduates. With 24.9 percent (Germany’s national average: 18.6 percent), Saxony achieves the absolute top value here in a comparison of all federal states. The replacement rate for engineers is also high, around 8.7 out of 100 employed engineers who were subject to mandatory social insurance contributions in Saxony were new engineering graduates. The German national average has only a replacement rate amounting to 6 percent. 

For the upcoming years, the bachelor’s and master’s programs of studies provide particularly superb opportunities of attracting students from abroad and, thus, counteracting the demographic change. Today, 15.3 percent of the students in Saxony are foreign students – in a comparison of all German federal states (average: 11.4 percent), this is the second best score.