• A highly-qualified potential workforce is available to businesses in the aerospace industry. The density of engineers, scientists and technicians in Baden-Württemberg is amongst the highest in the whole of Europe.

• At the nine universities and 23 higher education establishments in the state, approximately one quarter of all students follow courses in disciplines related to the aerospace industry. This places Baden- Württemberg well above the average for Germany as a whole.

• Measured against the whole of Germany, around one fifth of students graduate in disciplines related to aerospace in Baden- Württemberg.

• The University of Stuttgart educates around 80% of aerospace engineers in Germany. The Aerospace Engineering and Geodetics faculty at the University of Stuttgart is the largest faculty in this field in Europe, with a total of 14 institutes. This faculty alone, with over 1,500 students in aerospace engineering and 200 in geodetics, possesses an enormous pool of potential employees for local enterprises in the sector.

*Courses of study related to aerospace: IT, physics, astronomy, general engineering, mechanical engineering/process engineering, electrical engineering
Source: German Office of Statistics