{"id":6473,"date":"2025-10-21T11:29:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:29:49","slug":"how-much-money-yesterdays-graduates-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/2025\/10\/21\/how-much-money-yesterdays-graduates-make\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do yesterday's graduates earn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our recent webinar, there were a lot of questions about which programs in Germany are the most prestigious and where to apply to find a good job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It's important to remember: high competition for admission doesn't always mean better prospects after graduation.<br>Often the opposite is true - some less \u00abhigh-profile\u00bb fields offer excellent career opportunities and high income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exception is medicine. Here the high competition is really justified: both in terms of the complexity of enrollment and the level of salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To show the real picture, here's Absolventa's data on who earns the most after university in Germany:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Average starting salary by destination:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.telegram.org\/a\/blank.8dd283bceccca95a48d8.png?w=900&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u25b6\ufe0f\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Medicine - 58,829 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Business Engineering (Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen) - 55,517 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Natural Sciences - 55,504 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Business Informatics (Wirtschaftsinformatik) - 54 851 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Law - 54,105 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Informatics - 53 601 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engineering - 53,108 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Economics and Management - 52,343 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pharmaceuticals - 44,838 \u20ac<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Agrarian and Environmental Sciences - 42,971 \u20ac<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our recent webinar, there were a lot of questions about which programs in Germany are the most prestigious and where to apply to find a good job. It's important to remember: high competition at entry does not always mean better prospects after graduation. Often it's the other way around - some less \u00abhigh-profile\u00bb fields offer excellent career opportunities and high income. The exception is medicine. ... <a href=\"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/2025\/10\/21\/how-much-money-yesterdays-graduates-make\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How much do yesterday's graduates earn?<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":189993925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","content-type":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[232150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-232150"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcd2VE-1Gp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189993925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6475,"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniapplygermany.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}