A couple ten thousand of those migrants are actually university students. Universities are almost free in Germany (about 500 €/year all inclusive) and there hasn't only been a rise of German university students*, but also of foreign ones.



*: Abitur (highest school degree) shortened from 13 to 12 years, producing a double class, no more conscription or alternative compulsory social service, efforts to improve especially the education of Germans 'with migration background' and the unsatisfactory labour market with poor pay expectations for non-academics have contributed tot his rise.