Although I'm in my third year of college in the States, I'm the same age as the majority of the first-year students here at the Uni Regensburg. Two or three times, I've been asked how old I was and gotten the response, "Wow! So young! And already even out of the country and abroad??" .
But not only do we start earlier for university in the States, we typically go for a shorter amount of time as well. It's 4 years in college, in and out, and your path diverges afterward to either an immediate career start or further study for a Master's or PhD degree. If it's the latter, then you've still got a few more years, but typically, most people are definitely done by, say, age 27 or 28 at the latest. (Not counting certain exceptions like med school, etc., where you could still be going to class, say, by the time you're already walking with a cane.)
This is almost never the case here in Germany. Although there are plenty of people who are about 23-25 who are writing their master's theses, I know almost just as many people who are about age 28-30 who are most definitely still in school. Still students. But this is nothing out of the ordinary here.
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