According to a social survey of the German student association, 60 percent of disabled and chronically ill students consider their disability or chronic disease an impairment for theirs studies.  In 2006 8% of the students were disabled or chronically ill.

In their law expertise, the Federal Antidiscrimination Agency reported in 2012, “Protection against discrimination on the grounds of chronic diseases”, that people with obesity or multiple sclerosis face discrimination in education. For example, how people with multiple sclerosis are not accepted for training to work as flight attendants.