2011 Wiwo Ranking
18 April 2011
University ranking
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences again obtains best results among universities of applied sciences in current university ranking of the WirtschaftsWoche magazine: it was rated number 1 four times by Germany’s personnel managers
For this year’s university ranking of the “WirtschaftsWoche” business magazine (issue 16 of 18 April 2011), the consulting company Universum Communications and the temporary employment agency access Kelly OCG have again conducted a survey, asking personnel managers in Germany of all lines of business from which universities they recruited their management trainees and future specialists and which ones prepared the students best for their future jobs. The survey clearly and deliberately focuses on the practical relevance of university training.
516 personnel managers, two thirds of which represent enterprises with over 1,000 employees, took part in the largest survey of its kind, which concentrated on industry-oriented degree programmes – Business Administration, Economics and Law, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business Information Systems, and Natural Sciences.
For the Business Administration and Engineering, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, and Electrical Engineering programmes, the personnel managers rated Karlsruhe University Germany’s best university of applied sciences when it comes to preparing the students for their future job – so that’s four times number one in this year’s university ranking. For the Mechanical Engineering programme, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences was rated number four. Thus, with four first places and one fourth place in the major engineering, computer science, and business programmes, HsKA is rated Germany’s most successful university of applied sciences in this ranking – for the fifth time in a row.
“High-quality university programmes combined with a strong focus on practical content are essential for industry and business,” says Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Meisel, President of Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. He is pleased about the university’s excellent results achieved in the latest ranking: “The response from personnel managers of German companies regarding the graduates from our university has been so positive that we’re in Germany’s top group for numerous disciplines, and this speaks for the quality of our university programmes. Moreover, this clearly shows our students and applicants how much industry and business are interested in recruiting them after graduation.”
In February 2010, researchers of the University Information System (HIS) in Hanover asked nearly 30,000 secondary school students that were about to graduate about their study opportunities. The survey showed that many of them were uninformed: only one out of four students knew about the study opportunities available. Every third student felt insufficiently informed and 40% even stated that they were overwhelmed by the many options they had.
It is thus essential that students thoroughly inform and orientate themselves at an early stage before deciding on a degree programme that is likely to pave the way for their entire future career. When informing themselves, many students also look at the university ranking results. In summer semester 2010, nearly 40% of the “freshmen students” said that the results obtained in the university ranking were crucial in their decision to study at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.
How worthwhile a successful university graduation can be is reflected in another current survey of the WirtschaftsWoche, asking personnel managers about the occupational outlook of university graduates: whereas in 2010 only 39% believed the outlook was good, this year that number has increased to 85%!
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