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Return of foreign students Table 3.1: Women ratio of foreign students vs. KAAD students in 2002, 2003, 2004 2002 2003 2004 Men Women Men Women Men Women Total Total in % Total Total in % Total Total in % Overall 107,764 98,377 47.70 117,205 109,821 48.40 125,826 120,310 48.90 KAAD 331 244 42.43 252 209 45.34 147 132 47.31 Source: Student Statistics Federal Statistical Office, HIS computations (available at: www. wissenschaft-weltoffen.de); KAAD Database bias. Even though the decision to stay gets more costly if students are required to repay the loan, still a large number of scholarship recipients stay in Germany. Moreover, the enforcement of the payback requirement is rather difficult and some students might get around it. Because of the similarities to other scholarship organizations, our analysis is of interest for other organizations trying to enhance global development through education. The results of our analysis identify feasible control levers for the success as measured in terms of the return rate of such scholarship programs. Foreign Student Population in Germany In this section, we compare some descriptive statistics for our sample and for the overall population of foreign students in Germany for the years 2002, 2003, and 2004. 6 In the overall population of foreign students, the ratio of women has risen from 47.7 % in 2002 to 48.9 % in 2004 (see Table 3.1). A similar pattern can be observed in the KAAD student population. Here the rise was more pronounced from 42.4 % in 2002 to 47.3 % in 2004. This shows that the gap in the ratio of women between the KAAD students and the overall foreign student population in Germany has been closing. The KAAD exclusively supports students from transition and developing countries. Among these countries, China and Poland are clearly the major senders of foreign students to Germany (see Table 3.7 in the Appendix (Section 3.7)). These two countries are also the two major home countries of KAAD scholarship recipients: most KAAD students come from Poland followed by China. Because of the relatively low number of students 6 For these years foreign student statistics for Germany are available. 57
Return of foreign students Table 3.2: Average age and time in host country of foreign students vs. KAAD students in 2002, 2003, 2004 2002 2003 2004 Age Foreign Graduates: graduate studies (without PhD) 29.09 29.09 28.65 PhD program 33.49 33.39 33.01 KAAD Graduates: 32.18 31.90 32.55 Time Foreign Graduates: duration of studies (in semester) 5.51 5.70 5.64 KAAD Graduates: time spent in Germany (in months) 35.24 35.58 41.74 Source: Student Statistics Federal Statistical Office, HIS computations (available at: www.wissenschaft-weltoffen.de); KAAD Database who are supported by the KAAD in a given year and because of the focus of the KAAD on specific countries, the distribution of home countries in the KAAD sample is not fully representative. Still, home countries other than China and Poland are represented with comparable shares in the overall student population and in the KAAD database. 7 In Table 3.2 the average age of foreign students and KAAD students is depicted. The KAAD student population consists of students who are enrolled in graduate study programs or in PhD programs and of guest researchers. Consequently, the average age of KAAD students lies between the average age of foreign students who participate in a PhD program and of foreign students who are enrolled in other graduate study programs. Table 3.2 also reveals that the study duration of foreign students who did a Master in Germany was between five and six semesters. These students, thus, spent between 30 and 36 months in Germany. KAAD students in this respect resemble the overall foreign student population. In the year 2004, however, the average time the KAAD students spent in Germany is exceptionally long. These similarities between the foreign student population in Germany and the KAAD students leads us to conclude that the underlying KAAD database is useful when regarding the implications of this study in a more general setting. 7 The shares for the foreign student population in Table 3.7 in the Appendix are calculated in relation to the whole population including students from other countries than transition and developing countries. 58
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