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Note that while most university courses are intended to be finished after three, four, or five years, it seems to be more common than in other countries to stay for six or even seven years if there's something preventing you from finishing in time.
 
Also note that to obtain a Doctor's degree (PhD) you need to have a master's degree (or a Diplom, Magister, or Staatsexamen) first and have to publish a [[Door StopperDoorstopper|book-size]] doctoral thesis which has to contribute to the sum of human knowledge. In addition, in Germany there's no such thing as an MD - any physician who hasn't written a doctoral thesis may technically not call themselves a doctor.
 
Another hotly debated university-related issue in recent years, apart from the bachelor/master stuff, has been the introduction of tuition payments which also didn't exist before. Each German state deals with this in its own way. Now most states who originally adopted the tuition fees are stopping them again. All of this is still in a bit of flux.
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