Welcome to the website of the Research Group on Higher Education.
The Research Group on Higher Education investigates the study situation and student orientations at German universities. From 1982 to 2017, it conducted the Student Survey every two to three years. Since 2018, the Research Group on Higher Education is a collaborative partner of the DZHW and the DSW in an integrated nationwide survey project ("One for All") - funded by the BMBF. A special survey was conducted in the first Corona semester summer 2020.
The current research project is a subproject of the joint survey “One for All. The Student Survey in Germany” (“Eine für alle. Die Studierendenbefragung in Deutschland”), which is conducted in cooperation with the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Study (DZHW) and the German National Association for Student Affairs (Deutsches Studentenwerk DSW) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).So far, three policy papers and a report on the study situation under online conditions have been published from the project.