In Germany there are over 400 institutes of higher education, of which 140 are entitled to award doctorates, and around 200 universities of the applied sciences. Courses at German Higher Education Institutes cover more than 400 disciplines, and many institutions offer courses taught in English that lead to internationally recognised degrees, including Master’s and PhD. Prominent fields of study include: Engineering Sciences, Natural Sciences, Economics and Business Administration, Arts, Music, Architecture and Design – and there are over 1,600 international programs listed on the DAAD database. Almost half of Germany’s 2.6 million current students are women. With some 300,000 foreign students enrolled at German institutes of higher education, Germany has the third highest number of foreign students in the world. The number of Indian students in Germany has more than doubled in the last 5 years. Germany offers various forms of research locations: All in all, there are approximately 750 public-funded research institutions in Germany, plus research and development centres run by industrial corporations. The annual research budget is about 70 billion euro www.research-in-germany.de German universities do not charge tuition fees, neither from German nor from the international students. Living expenses amount to around 50,000-60,000 INR per month depending on the region. Some 35 German universities feature in the Global Top 400 of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016, of which 20 are in the Top 200 and 9 in the Top 100 – the highest ranked German Universities being Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitas München at 29, Heidelberg University at 37, and Humboldt University of Berlin at 49.