University and Student Funding

Study: Diversifying university funding

Higher education institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg had more money at their disposal over the last decade. Go to download

Interview: ``Higher education institutions are under enormous pressure``

The financial situation for many international universities is grim due to the impact of COVID-19. By comparison, higher education institutions in Germany are holding up quite well, summarised CHE Executive Director Frank Ziegele in an interview for the Frankfurter Rundschau

CHE Student Loan Test

KfW Student Loan: coronavirus crisis aid shown to have shortcomings in CHE Student Loan Test Go to download

Financing Higher Education in Germany and Europe: Performance-oriented Models of State Funding and Institutional Resource Allocation

This paper investigates the changes in public higher education funding models in Germany and Europe and illustrates the advantages of the currently prevailing approaches. The article is only available in Japanese language.

News

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Sigrun Nickel 14. March 2023

Number of students without Abitur has more than doubled in ten years

The number of students without a formal higher education entrance qualification has reached an all-time high in Germany: more than 70,000 people...

digitisation

Jannica Budde 7. February 2023

Peer-to-peer departmental consultation focuses on human medicine in 2023/2024

The digital transformation has become an indispensable part of medicine and the medical professions. This also implies changes in medical education. For...

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Frank Ziegele 6. February 2023

Good ideas for the Federal Ministry of Education that do not cost a cent

In their assessment of Bettina Stark-Watzinger’s first year in office, many education experts would, above all, like to see more money. In...

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Cort-Denis Hachmeister 2. February 2023

Chemistry is the subject with the highest PhD ratio

In the discipline of chemistry, the number of successful doctorates is almost as high as the number of Master’s degrees. Most doctoral...

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Ulrich Müller 31. January 2023

More than one in four universities not recognisable as such from their name

Prospective students can currently choose from more than 21,000 study programmes at over 400 higher education institutions (HEIs) in Germany. The names...

Hochschulforschung

Sigrun Nickel 27. January 2023

Call for papers to the GfHf Annual Conference

The “Interaction between Higher Education Research and Higher Education Development: Empiricism, Transfer and Impact” is the topic of this year’s conference of...

Press releases

Ulrich Müller 11. January 2023

Reorganisation of the CHE management team

Heike Hepermann and Ulrich Müller were made Prokuristen (authorised signatories) of CHE on 1 January 2023. Ulrich Müller and Executive Director Frank...

Higher Education System

Sigrun Nickel 13. December 2022

Next GfHf Annual Conference to be held in Osnabrück on 11-13 September 2023

The CHE Centre for Higher Education and Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences are set to host the next Annual Conference of the Society...

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Ulrich Müller 12. December 2022

CHECK Studienfinanzierung (CHECK student finance): take-up of BAföG funding differs widely from one federal state to another

The three-party “traffic light” coalition has already taken the first steps in reforming the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG), with more to...

Higher Education Management

Frank Ziegele 1. December 2022

Professor Dr Walter Rosenthal is “University Manager of the Year 2022”

Professor Dr Walter Rosenthal, President of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, is “University Manager of the Year 2022”. With this award, the weekly...

Hochschulzugang

Nina Horstmann 21. November 2022

CHE Ranking 2022 of Master’s programmes in engineering sciences and psychology

The CHE Ranking with the latest assessments by Master’s students is now available online. Subjects from the field of engineering sciences and...

Hochschulzugang

Jan Thiemann 18. November 2022