The spring of the 12,300 possibilities.

High School Graduates have the choice - the range of the study is "crazy," warned spokesman Ulrich GEW Thöne. The only way out: Who wants to study meaningful, must be early in the individual universities inform.

 

Many school-leavers is likely to remain clueless, if he is currently looking for the right subject for the coming autumn around. In study subjects appear leaders names like "Life Science" or "Applied Computer Science", under which it is not something everyone can imagine. The reason for this is to be the new Bachelor and Master degrees in the course of their degree programs are becoming increasingly specialized.

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Before the study start, the question: What do I merely specialist?

And because the universities are also strengthened their own priorities in their fields, use the search for candidates for the right specialist is always opaque.

Prospective students must hingucker exactly the form in which one subject at a university is offered. "The universities are now stronger than previously forced to set their own priorities," said Prof. Margret Wintermantel, President of the German Rectors' Conference (HRK), the Education Fair in Hanover Didacta. "In the past, was the principle that regardless of whether one or keel in Passau studied in approximately the same learn. This is true no longer."

Applicants should be in place to make a picture of how the conditions are at a university, advises the winter coat. "They ask you also the best students of the university." Because at the universities in Germany was a "growing speed of differentiation" can be observed.

Coined earlier, above all, the division into colleges and universities, the university landscape, whether in the light of the eligibility rules in the research is now an even more differentiation in demand. A full classical lettering it will therefore be less likely to give predicts winter coat.

Furthermore, due to the change of bachelor and master the range of study subjects has grown. Instead, there is now law, for example, subjects such as "Business Law" or "Comparative and European Law." "Because you have to wonder exactly what a fit," said Wintermantel.

Is the Bachelor's still room for a semester abroad?

The fact that more and more subjects such new-fangled name, was for school but often confusing, said Bernd Rebischke by the Federal Agency for work at the fair. "Then of course, one wonders: What's in it as well?"

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Applicants should also see how the transition to the bachelor of the university in question was implemented, says Thöne Ulrich, Chairman of the Union for Education and Science (GEW). Because many students often complain that the curricula in the new courses were too full. Who about a semester abroad would like to appeal, should be clarified in advance whether in a bachelor degree can still bring.

The differentiation also increases the total number of courses on offer. "This is now an almost insane range," said Rebischke. "And the large selection makes it easier for school leavers not to get an overview." According HRK there were at German universities in the winter semester 2008/2009 around 12,300 degrees - almost 11 percent more than four years earlier. Moreover, the offer of the new Bachelor's and Master's courses only since the summer semester of 2008 grew by 21 percent. Overall, three quarters of the study now offers one of the two degrees.

The increasing specialization makes loud Rebischke many problems before - because the choice between two similar-sounding subjects can characterize the whole career: "A lawyer with the state are completely different career paths open as for example, a business lawyer with a bachelor."

It threatens a licensing chaos as last year

Generally, although specialized courses are not necessarily discouraged, says Rebischke. "If this is the right one for me, should I also make. But I am then in the labor market later and more likely to justify."

Another hurdle for student applicants, the conditions for admission to different colleges. These are often very different, because more and more universities are not only the final scores, but also make their own aptitude test. This led last year to a
Chaos at the time of admission to the universities - and how it looks
will be reflected in this year again.

"The aptitude tests can be very different look. This is actually not only from institution to institution, but in part also from faculty to faculty at the same university to another." Not even the application deadline for the winter semester was more uniform. Candidates need him to ask each institution individually, so they do not end up too late.

Even a university exchange students today need to plan early. "The courses are now part of so highly specialized that it hardly even in the Germanic from Freiburg to Heidelberg can change."

So from the outset with the idea to play at several universities to study, is best done in advance examine the performance of the first station of the study are recognized elsewhere. Here, too, remains, according to a study Rebischke candidates in turn have no other choice than to each individual universities asking.