| > 9k out of 36k students may enroll without any academic intention. but this isn't just because of the "semester ticket" students get, at least where I live the ticket is the least relevant reason of multiple ones why someone might sign up for university. Other reasons include: - healthy insurance/tax, especially until you are 25(??) you can be health insured through your parents, even afterwards the health insurance flat rate can be nice in some situations. And the tax model of student side jobs is nice too, through with some long term drawbacks people tend to overlook - not being officially unemployed, when spending a year for yourself e.g. traveling the world - having an excuse for your family and similar when you have absolutely no idea what you want from live - forcing parents in broken families to pay child support longer - using healthy insurance and tax of students to (pre-) bootstrap a one man self employment company and try out various side jobs to find yourself - starting with the intend to study but then losing that intent due to you realizing that is not what you want to do and not finding a way forward for year or more - abusing BAföG - officially studing one topic "for fun, taxes, health, etc." while waiting for a spot in the study track you care for to open up, (that was a thing I have seen quite often) - study for fun for people which don't need to work and a bored (thats how sometimes 60+ year old people appear in as students). As a side note, in my experience most, nearly all times, when people sign up for a study track without the intention to get a Bachelor/Master they sign up for tracks which always have free "left over" spots each semester. On one hand because this makes it nearly guaranteed they get in, on the other hand because it would be pretty shitty if you prevent people which want to study from getting a spot when you have no intent to study. |