Bild erstellt mit Dall-EThe surveys for the CHE Ranking 2026, which this time includes around 4,000 degree programmes in law, economics and social sciences, will start in June 2025. The subjects being analysed are business administration, economics, economics, law and social work as well as business informatics, industrial engineering, business law and business psychology.
As every year, all German full universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of cooperative education that offer full-time degree programmes or dual study programmes in the subjects mentioned are included in the survey, as well as some Austrian universities of applied sciences.
As a first step, the CHE Center for Higher Education is informing university management and the central ranking coordinators about the new surveys this week and asking them to participate. In a short ‘kick-off survey’, the universities review the faculties and departments researched in advance by CHE that are to be included in the surveys and nominate contact persons for them.
The CHE ranking team had already planned and discussed the research for the current year in advance with representatives of the subjects included this year (advisory boards): this includes a survey of the departments, students and professors, as well as carrying out a publication analysis in some subjects. The group of central ranking coordinators was already informed about the new surveys in April.
Following the initial survey, the next step in the ranking cycle is the preliminary survey. The faculties and departments will be invited by the CHE at the beginning of July. Among other things, the list of degree programmes to be included will then be reviewed.
The CHE Ranking 2026/27 will be published at the beginning of May 2026 on HeyStudium. An English-language version will be available on the website of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).