Elite Universities ┐ Winners in the Competition for Students?

Abstract

"The German Excellence Initiative was intended to strengthen university-based research and to create a set of internationally competitive elite institutions. The present article analyses whether or not designation as an elite institution has had an impact on the number of first-year students. Our results indicate that this is not the case. This observation might be explained by the fact that the Excellence Initiative mainly focuses on the reputation of the university as a whole, while students are more interested in the reputation of their preferred field of study. Hence, students compare the quality of faculties or degree programmes rather than the reputation of universities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Bruckmeier, K., Fischer, G. & Wigger, B. (2014): Eliteuniversitäten - Gewinner im Wettbewerb um Studierende? In: Wirtschaftsdienst, Vol. 94, No. 2, p. 125-128. DOI:10.1007/s10273-014-1636-3