Learning Conditions and Student Orientations 2012/13

The Student Survey is a trend study on the development of the study situation and student orientations at universities and universities of applied sciences in Germany. The aim is to provide comparable information on the study conditions at German universities over time. The concept of the student survey aims at ´educational measurements´ in the higher education sector. At the end of the 1970s, six areas were identified as the subject of such performance measurements and recorded with the survey instrument: Efficiency, qualification, evaluation, socialization, selection and placement. The student survey covers a wide range of topics: e.g. access to higher education, choice of subject, course of studies, study requirements, quality of studies, contacts and social climate, difficulties in studying, internationality, wishes and demands, but also questions on career choice and values as well as on social and political orientations. The core of the questionnaire has remained stable across the various surveys.

Topics:
1. Professional studies and university entrance;
2. Study and teaching;
3. Learning and working behavior;
4. Student´s living situation;
5. Contacts and consulting;
6. Study experience and study problems;
7. University development;
8. Choice of career and job expectations;
9. Social-political ideas;
10. Demography