Graduate Survey 1983

Judgement on learning conditions in Dortmund as well as satisfaction with studies. Information on transfer into professional life.

Topics: type of entitlement to university admission; vocational training; social origins; earlier desired studies; place of residence before start of course of studies; reasons for choosing Dortmund as city in which to study (scale); financing of studies; working student; attending and judgement on selected courses as well as assessment of the usability of the knowledge provided; desired subjects and topic areas not offered in Dortmund; subject combination in major and reasons for the choice of subjects; reasons for currently preferred subject combination; frequency of conversations with instructors and students; activities in the framework of student self-administration; attitude to student self-administration; satisfaction with choice of subject at the time; judgement on studies at the university of Dortmund; information on activities after conclusion of course of studies and starting to look for work; possibilities used in looking for work; personal efforts for a job in the Dortmund region; most important prerequisites when first looking for work or looking for work in the future; positive effects of selected factors for an application (scale); detailed information on first and current position; time worked each week for a side job; type of initial employment difficulties; annual income; weighting of selected characteristics corresponding to their support in studies or their significance for professional practice; characterization of personal job (scale); average actual time worked each week; job satisfaction; interest in self-employed activity; type of self-employment planned or already undertaken.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; length of studies in major subject semesters; final grade; grade of diploma dissertation; time of receipt of diploma document.