Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) – Last year significantly fewer people started a doctorate in Baden-Württemberg than the year before. As the State Statistical Office announced on Tuesday in Stuttgart, 5,244 people began their doctorates at a university in the southwest last year, around ten percent fewer than in 2021. At that time, the number of newly started doctorates was 5,841.
The Ministry of Science assumes that the high number of newly started doctorates in 2021 will represent an upward trend. One suspects a “catch-up effect” for doctoral students from abroad. «At the beginning of the corona pandemic, international mobility had largely come to a standstill. As a result, it is possible that international people interested in doing a doctorate have postponed their stay at a university or research institution in Baden-Württemberg by one year,” said a spokeswoman. Because the proportion of foreign doctoral students in Baden-Württemberg is high, fluctuations in international mobility behavior could become very noticeable.
According to the statistics office, a total of 32,000 doctoral procedures were carried out in Baden-Württemberg last year, a third of them in the fields of human medicine and health sciences.
2023-08-15 14:30:38
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