An article in University World News reports that roughly one-third of all German students are traveling to international countries for academic purposes. According to surveys commissioned by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Federal Education and Research Ministry (BMBF), and conducted by HIS, a higher education statistics agency, the proportion of students going abroad from the early 1990s to 2010 for part of their studies "grew from a fifth to around a third, with the total number of students now at just over two million."
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