Bild erstellt mit Dall-EIn addition to the student assessments, the facts about the individual degree programmes and departments are at the heart of the CHE University Ranking. Currently, these are queried online by the members of the ranking team throughout Germany.
Since 17 September, more than 1,000 departments and faculties at German universities are asked to provide information on their almost 4,000 degree programmes. For the CHE Ranking 2025, this year’s focus is on engineering sciences as well as the subjects of German studies, Romance studies, psychology and educational sciences.
For the individual degree programmes, information is collected on the type of degree, standard period of study, the exact subject orientation and subject focus, as well as the professional and practical relevance. Information on the international orientation and data on current student and graduation figures as well as the gender ratio are also requested.
At the faculty level, the CHE collects data such as measures to support study orientation and the start of studies, special features of the faculties with regard to teaching and technical equipment, as well as information for research indicators such as the amount of third-party funding raised or the number of (cooperative) doctorates.
The faculties and departments are supported in compiling data by central coordinators at the respective universities. And the CHE ranking team is also available to answer questions by phone or e-mail.
In order to reflect the specifics of the individual subjects well and adequately, the questionnaire looks slightly different depending on the subject. To this end, CHE representatives meet regularly with subject representatives in order to continuously develop the questionnaire for the departments and to take into account trends and developments in the degree programmes. For example, in the subject of architecture, questions are asked about the number and accessibility of workplaces and workshops for students. There are special blocks of questions for dual and part-time studies.
In total, the questionnaire contains more than 90 different questions, of which the subjects only find the questions that are suitable for their subject in their questionnaires.
As was the case last year, the CHE offers to collect data on other degree programmes from the engineering sciences and the humanities, even if the degree programmes cannot be assigned to any of the ranking lists. The profiles of these degree programmes in the CHE Ranking database will then be included accordingly when the ranking is published.
The survey will initially end on 3 November 2024, after which the CHE will review all the questionnaires received and then make them available to the departments for follow-up corrections until 5 January 2025. The new data will be included in the CHE University Ranking, in May 2025.