A large pool of potential employees for businesses in the automotive industry due to the excellent higher education network

• A large highly-qualified potential workforce is available to the domestic car industry. At the 9 universities and 23 specialist higher education establishments in the state, roughly one quarter of students study courses related to the car sector.

• In the area of mechanical engineering, the universities of Karlsruhe and Stuttgart and the higher education establishments of Aalen, Esslingen, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Ravensburg- Weingarten and Ulm belong to the top-ranked group of universities in Germany. The other higher education establishments also train a highly-qualified workforce, and guarantee a high intensity of research work for mechanical engineers in Baden-Württemberg.

• Almost all higher education establishments in the state have special courses in the areas of mobility, such as construction and process engineering, vehicle technology and industrial mobility design. There are also a multitude of special courses such as car information technology, computational mechanics of materials and structures, vehicle interior design, mechatronics and automotive systems engineering. The training facilities in the state ensure that education is sector-specific and practice-orientated.

• In addition to the USA and European countries, sales markets in the far east, particularly the Chinese and Japanese market, are playing an increasingly important role in the Baden-Württemberg car industry.

• In terms of importing, Europe and its countries are also of major importance, which further reinforces the close links within Europe between the Baden-Württemberg automotive sector and the member states of the European Union.

* Courses of study related to the car indsutry: mathematics, IT, general engineering, mechanical engineering/process engineering, electronics, traffic engineering/nautical Source: German Office of Statistics