More and More Students in NRW Leave School without Graduation - These Are the Reasons
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In NRW, the number of students without a degree is growing. What are the reasons for this?
In NRW, as many students have left school without a degree as in ten years. The reason is migration – more than one in ten foreign students do not have a certificate of maturity in their hands at the end of their careers.
DÜSSELDORF. The number of school leavers without a degree increased to a ten-year high in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2025. Non-perspective (symbol photo). Photo: Shutterstock/Sabphoto The statistical office in Düsseldorf reported that in the year of departure 2025 7,430 of a total of 178,135 pupils in NRW left a general education school without a degree. This corresponds to a share of 4.2 percent. In 2015, the proportion of those without a degree…
More and more young people in NRW leave school without a degree - the quota reached a ten-year peak of 4.2 percent in 2025. This is more than twice as many as in 2015, when only 2.2 percent went without a degree.
In NRW, a growing number of young people leave school without a degree. Foreign students are particularly affected.
In NRW, more and more students leave school without a degree.
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