Where students live cheaply
Big differences in costs for shared apartments in university cities
380 euros – the BAföG flat rate is that high. In most cities, however, students hardly find a room for this. According to a survey, you even have to leaf of 800 euros in a city.
The average costs for a shared apartment at German university locations have hardly risen recently, but often exceed the budget of students. The differences between individual cities are sometimes significant, as can be seen from an evaluation of the Moses Mendelssohn Institute (MMI) in cooperation with the placement platform WG-Gesucht.de that the German Press Agency is present. While 265 euros are due in Chemnitz, it is 800 euros in Munich.
On average, a shared apartment room costs 493 euros shortly before the summer semester. That is an increase of 4 euros (0.9 percent) compared to the previous semester and an increase of 14 euros (2.8 percent) compared to the previous year. Before the winter semester of 2013/2014, a flat room still cost 324 euros on average.
More than 600 euros in Frankfurt, Munich or Hamburg
“We have been able to observe significant price increases since the winter semester 2021/2022. We have found a market calm compared to the past winter semester,” said project manager Stefan Brauckmann.
According to him, rents have hardly changed, especially in the largest university cities. “However, this is a weak consolation for the students who, for example, study in Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main or Hamburg and can expect more than 600 euros for ordinary accommodation.” The costs in Munich have risen from 750 to 800 euros, in Hamburg from 600 to 610 and in Berlin at 650 euros.
Students live in Chemnitz for 265 euros a month
Brauckmann emphasized that the average costs were wrong about regional differences. “On the one hand there are university cities in East Germany and smaller cities, where they find a sufficient offer as part of the BAföG flat rate of 380 euros,” he said. Examples are Chemnitz (265 euros), Magdeburg (330), Dresden (350), Hildesheim (365), Erfurt (370) and Kaiserslautern (380).
At the same time, there are cities in which you hardly find it below 500 euros. Only in 23 cities can be found an ordinary room as part of the BAföG flat rate for living costs. Brauckmann demands that the flat rate must be “dynamically adapted to the actual price development”. In addition, there must be more dormitory for students.
For the evaluation, 8,800 offers were analyzed on wg-gesucht.de. All university locations with at least 5,000 students were taken into account. According to the information, there are 88 cities in which around 90.5 percent of all around 2.7 million students are enrolled. Only offers for a room in a shared apartment with a total of two or three residents were in the evaluation.
dpa
Source: Stern
