and Master Programmes in German Higher Education Institutions

siderable growth is expected in the percentage of first-year students enrolling in Bachelorand Master degree programmes. By 2004/05, 43% of institutions expect more than 15% offirst years to enrol in B/M. Universities and TUs anticipate a slightly higher percentage ofnew enrolments in Bachelor and Master programmes than do FHs 44 . Both of the privateinstitutions indicated that their institutions anticipate more than 30% of first-year studentsto be enrolled in Bachelor and Master programmes in both of the time periods.Table 21: Estimated percentage of first-year students enrolling in Bachelor and Master programmesin 2001/02 and 2004/05, all institutions surveyedPercentage of first-year students enrolling inB/M programmes (estimated)2001/02 2004/050% 21% 3%1-5% 41% 15%6-15% 26% 39%16-30% 9% 30%More than 30% 3% 13%Note: n=120 (the number of respondents that filled in answers for both time periods). Source: CHEPS/CHE Survey data.4.3.4 Degree of innovationOur survey asked to what degree the introduction of B/M has been used by institutions forinnovation in terms of curricula or subject areas. As can be seen in the table below, themajority of respondents in all three main sectors indicated that the Bachelor and Masterdegree programmes are based on existing curricula, but that there have been some structuraland methodological changes. Around a quarter of the respondents in all three sectors, aswell as both respondents from private institutions, indicated that new subject areas and curriculahave been introduced as a result of the introduction of these degrees. Only four respondentsindicated that the introduction of Bachelor and Master degrees consisted of renamingexisting programmes.Table 22: Innovations resulting from the introduction of Bachelor and Master degrees, bysector; number and percentage of the sector givenPredominantlynew subjectareas/ curriculaPredominantlychanges inmethod/ structurePredominantlyre-naming ofexisting programmesEntirely differentbetweensubject areasno responseFH 15 (27%) 31 (55%) 2 (4%) 5 (9%) 3 (5%)Uni 14 (25%) 33 (59%) 1 (2%) 5 (9%) 3 (5%)TU 4 (25%) 11 (69%) 1 (6%) -- --Source: CHEPS/CHE Survey data.44 The data from our survey is not, of course, directly comparable to that of the Statistisches Bundesamt. Oursurvey does not take into account the different sizes of the institutions which answered our questions, and sothe percentages here only indicate the number of institutions which anticipate first-year enrolments in B/Mprogrammes, and do not tell us how many students each institute anticipates. In spite of these differences,however, it is interesting to note that universities and TUs anticipate first-year B/M enrolments as high orhigher than those expected by FHs.36