In a survey from the British Council Germany ranks first in terms of foreign students friendliness. The league table ranks university systems on measures such as openness, degree quality, how widely degrees are recognised, support for overseas students and how much students were encouraged to spend time abroad.The UK was ranked in third place, with China coming fourth, ahead of the United States in sixth place, in a table showing 11 of the biggest players in the overseas student market.

Die BBC reports on the survey taking Freie Universität Berlin as a sample.

In an other article University World News explains Freien Universität's 'embassy' model of internationalisation with its seven liaison offices worldwide.