On Opening Minds, IIE’s recently launched blog, Raisa Belyavina, the Senior Research Officer at IIE’s Center for Academic Mobility Research, discusses the many national and institutional policies that are making German higher education institutions even more international student friendly. As Belyavina notes, "Germany has begun to implement policies that will remedy a declining pool of German graduates: significant inroads in implementing the Bologna reforms, offering subsidized or free education—with hundreds of programs in English—for international students, and liberalizing immigration policies for students with a German degree. As Germany begins to confront the challenge of declining domestic enrollment, attracting top students from around the world will become even more important."

To read the full post, please visit: www.iie.org/Blog/2012/September/Making-German-Institutions-International-Student-Friendly.