News from DAAD: Benefits of transnational education to Germany and its foreign partners

Students are not the only ones interested in going abroad. More and more German institutions of higher education are offering cross-border study programmes in foreign countries. Transnational education – be it in the form of individual degree programmes, a campus or binational university – produce positive effects on the higher education sector in the partner countries. This is according to a study conducted on behalf of the DAAD and the British Council. The results of the study show that transnational education promotes access to global research and helps further the development of the academic infrastructure. More...