Influx of foreign PhDs mostly from neighbours

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Some 20,000 students were undertaking doctoral research in Austria in 2000, a year when 1,790 PhDs were awarded. By 2011-12, the number enrolled for PhDs had increased to 25,700 and the proportion of foreign students had jumped from 16% to 26%, or 6,700. Of the 3,000 newly admitted doctoral students, 750 (or 25%) were from outside Austria; and of these 23% were from Germany, 21% from Asia, 6% from former Yugoslav countries, 5% from North and South America, 4% from Italy and 2.9% from Africa. Furthermore, 30% were enrolled in engineering studies and 20% in the natural sciences. Read more...