Success story

From India to Stuttgart

Palak Shah comes from Maharashtra and is studying for a Master’s degree in Infrastructure Planning at the University of Stuttgart. She completed two German courses in India before coming to Germany. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, she was only able to move to Stuttgart after two semesters. The Welcome Center Stuttgart became an important point of contact for her, where she found support and met new people, for example in the Welcome Club.

As a foreigner, everything is new – a new country, a new city. The Welcome Center helped me a lot to arrive in Stuttgart and find my way around.

The Welcome Center was also able to help her when she had problems extending her stay.

She came to Stuttgart because the University of Stuttgart offers interesting English-language Master’s courses. Despite all the construction sites, she feels very much at home here as a budding civil engineer. She is particularly interested in Stuttgart 21 – during an internship at Züblin, she was even able to work on it herself.

I was talking to friends a few days ago and we said we’ve fallen in love with the city. Stuttgart is starting to feel like home.

Palak finds studying and working in Germany very enriching and encourages companies to hire foreign students and specialists.

We are very motivated and hard-working and want to give something back to the country because Germany has given us so many things.