Shared rooms in Leipzig are the most expensive

Students have to pay more on average for a room in a shared flat in Leipzig than in other Saxon university cities. According to an analysis by the Moses Mendelssohn Institute (MMI) in cooperation with the wg-gesucht.de platform, students have to pay 405 euros shortly before the summer semester. In Dresden it is 350 euros. The cheapest accommodation for students is in Chemnitz. The average cost there is €265 for a room in a shared flat.

This puts Saxony's university cities below the national level. According to the analysis, a room in a shared flat costs an average of 493 euros nationwide shortly before the summer semester. This is an increase of 4 euros (0.9 percent) compared to the previous semester and an increase of 14 euros (2.8 percent) compared to the previous year. Before the 2013/2014 winter semester, a room in a shared flat cost an average of 324 euros.

More than 600 euros in Frankfurt, Munich or Hamburg

According to project manager Stefan Brauckmann, rents have hardly changed, especially in the largest university cities. "However, this is little consolation for students studying in Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main or Hamburg, for example, who have to expect to pay more than 600 euros for standard accommodation." The costs in Munich have risen from 750 to 800 euros, in Hamburg from 600 to 610 and in Berlin have remained at 650 euros.

For the evaluation, 8,800 offers on wg-gesucht.de were analyzed. All university locations with at least 5,000 students were taken into account. According to the data, there are a total of 88 cities in which around 90.5 percent of all 2.7 million students are enrolled. Only offers for a room in a shared flat with a total of two or three residents were included in the evaluation.