For the mobile fall on average 30 euros, for food 168 euros and for new clothes 42 euros. In addition, there are rent, books, insurance, expenses for leisure activities and means of transport. Students have to cope with some expenses, as the 21st Social Survey of the German Student Union shows.
According to them, they need an average of 918 euros a month to live on, a large item of which is rent, for which students have to spend more and more money, as shown by the current student housing price index on behalf of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW).
But how do students finance themselves? Their income is very different: most of them (86 percent) receive financial support from their parents. They pay their children an average of 541 euros a month.
However, just under two-thirds of all students (61 percent) work as well. With their part-time jobs they receive an average of 385 euros a month - and thus 28 percent or 85 euros more than four years earlier.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, 2.8 million students in Germany receive about 557,000 student loans - on average around 500 euros a month. However, the number of Bafög recipients has been falling since 2012.
Studierendenwerk general secretary Achim Meyer at the Heyde said: "The student loan is often put worse than it is, and we know from our regular student surveys that families out of concern for an alleged debt even no Bafög application."
Almost one in five students also receives a grant from other relatives for the university or college, as shown by the social survey. Some students (18 percent) also finance themselves with savings, scholarships, loans, partners or orphans' pensions.