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Our survey also asked institutional management how they think about student selection forMaster programmes.Table 32: Does institutional management aim to select students at the Master level? By sector,number and percentage givenNo yes Yes, but only for someprogrammesFH 10 (18%) 36 (64%) 9 (16%)Uni 13 (23%) 30 (54%) 9 (16%)TU -- 7 (44%) 9 (56%)Note: 2% of FH and 7% of Uni respondents did not answer this question. Source: CHEPS/CHE Survey data.Half or more of the respondents in each of the three main sectors are generally in favour ofselecting students for Master programmes, and many are in favour of selecting students forparticular Master programmes. No respondents in the TU sector, but 18 and 23% of respondentsin the Fachhochschul and university sectors, respectively, informed us that their institutionsare not in favour of selecting students at the Master level.4.3.13 Theoretical versus applied orientationThe KMK guidelines (Strukturvorgaben March 1999) propose to distinguish the new degreesinto more theory-oriented and more applied ones. In our survey, we asked respondentsif B/M at their institutions were predominantly oriented towards theory/research or towardsa profession. Not surprisingly, FHs are more likely than universities or TUs to offer degreesthat are practically-oriented at both the Bachelor and Master levels. At universities and TUs,the emphasis on theoretical or research-oriented degrees is somewhat more prominent at theMaster than at the Bachelor level. A lot of institutions report that differences between subjectareas are too big to give an overall answer. It is interesting to note that a significantminority of universities (20%) describes their Bachelor degrees as predominantly professionallyoriented, while 9% of FHs describe their Master degree programmes as predominantlytheory or research oriented. It is even more interesting to compare these percentagesto the data on degree titles presented in Chapter 3: For only 5% of their Bachelor as well asMaster programmes, universities choose degree titles signalling an applied nature (another5% of Master programmes are MBAs), and for 29% of their Bachelor and 35% of theirMaster programmes, FHs choose degree titles signalling theory-orientation.A considerable group of institutions answered that it is not possible to classify degree programmesthis way (At the Bachelor level, 9%, 24%, and 25% of the FHs, Universities andTUs, respectively and at the Master level 14%, 13%, and 19%, respectively, gave this answer).44
Table 33: Practical vs. theoretical/research orientation of Bachelor and Master degrees,number and percentageBachelorMasterPredominantlypracticalPredominantlytheory/researchStrong differencesbetweensubject areasPredominantlypracticalPredominantlytheory/researchStrong Differencesbetweensubject areasFH 35(63%)Uni 11(20%)TU 1(6%)1(2%)9(16%)5(31%)5(9%)16(29%)5(31%)26(46%)4(7%)5(9%)20(36%)-- 6(38%)12(21%)19(35%)6(38%)Note: Totals do not add up to 100%. 10 (or 18%), 6 (or 11%) and 1 (or 6%) did not answer the question concerningBachelor degrees among the FHs, universities and TUs, respectively; 5 (or 9%), 5 (or 9%), and 1 (or 6%) did not answer thequestion concerning Master degrees among the FHs, universities and TUs, respectively. At the Bachelor level, 9%, 24%, and25% (among the FHs, universities and Tus, respectively) answered that it is not possible to classify the degree programmes inthis way, while at the Master level 14%, 13%, and 19%, respectively, gave the same answer. Source: CHEPS/CHE Surveydata.In addition, our survey asked respondents to indicate, if possible, if the Master degrees intheir institutions are (or will be) predominantly oriented towards theory/research or towardsa profession in different subject areas. In nearly all subject areas the FH sector indicated thatMaster degrees are primarily practically-oriented, while the university and TU sectors indicatedthat Master degrees are primarily oriented toward research/theory. The one subjectarea where there was found to be some emphasis on practical studies at the Master level inthe university and TU sectors was in the area of law, economics and social sciences, where11 (or 20%) of university respondents, and 2 (or 13%) of TU respondents indicated thatthese programmes are primarily practically oriented.4.3.14 Interdisciplinary vs. subject-specific orientationSimilarly to the previous section, respondents to our survey were asked to identify if theBachelor and Master degrees were predominantly generalist or interdisciplinary in nature, ormore subject-specific. Respondents in all three sectors 55 indicated that the degrees are moresubject-specific than generalist (see Table 34, below). Interestingly, the answers do not differthat much for the Bachelor level and the Master level. There are some interesting variationsbetween sectors: The FHs have the strongest emphasis on subject-specific programmes,especially at the Bachelor level. The TUs stand out with 38% describing theirBachelor degrees as interdisciplinary or generalist.55 With the exception of the TU sector at the Bachelor level, for which 4 (or 40%) of respondents indicatedthat the degrees are more generalist, while 3 (or 30%) indicated that the degrees are more subject-specific.45
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