and Master Programmes in German Higher Education Institutions

ever, 8% of the programmes 17 include compulsary internships. More international Bachelorprogrammes are university programmes: 191 university Bachelor programmes (or 62% ofall university Bachelor programmes) are listed as being international, compared with just 60FH Bachelor programmes (or 42% of all FH Bachelor programmes). At the Master level thedifferences between the sectors are not so great: there are 64 international university programmes(37% of all university Master programmes), compared with 45 international FHprogrammes (42% of all FH Master programmes).3.2 EnrolmentWhile data on the number and type of Bachelor and Master degrees, has been available forsome time (HRK Hochschulkompass, Jahn 1998, 2000, 2001), data on student enrolment inB/M became available only very recently. Winter semester 1999/2000 is the first semesterfor which the Statistisches Bundesamt collected data on student enrolment in the new degrees,in winter semester 2000/20001, data on B/M graduates was added. The data gives afirst impression of the quantitative significance of the B/M from the perspective of students.3.2.1 Enrolment in B/M versus traditional programmesOverall Enrolment. Table 8 shows the overall distribution of enrolment between the differenttypes of higher education institutions. The university sector accounts for about twothirds of students (64%), if Gesamthochschulen 18 , Schools of Education (PädagogischeHochschulen) and Theological Schools (Theologische Hochschulen) are included, even for74% of students 19 .Table 8: Total student enrolment by type of higher education institution, number and percentageof total higher education enrolmenttotal enrolmentpercentageUniversities 1.154.054 (1.091.178) 64% (63%)Gesamthochschulen 139.390 (135.561) 8% (8%)Pädagogische HS 15.029 (14.951) 1% (1%)Theologische HS 2.517 (2187)