New CHE Ranking Brings Top Grades for Offenburg University

The Cen­trum für Hoch­schul­ent­wick­lung (Center for Higher-Education Development), or CHE, has announced its latest university ranking. Of­fen­burg University achieved top positions in the fields of Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Me­cha­tro­nics.

In all three fields, students are very satisfied with the overall study situation, IT infrastructure, library equipment, and e-learning opportunities.

The CHE also assessed the in­ter­na­tio­na­l orientation of the different study programs, including study-abroad opportunities, the proportion of international students as well as international teaching staff, and the proportion of foreign-language course offerings. Two Offenburg University programs were ranked at the top in this regard: The tri­-na­tio­na­l Ba­che­lor's program of Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering, “3nat,” and the Mas­ter's program of Pro­cess En­gi­nee­ring.

With an average grade of 1.4 (on a scale from 1 to 6), the Mechanical Engineering program at Offenburg University achieved top marks in the categories “overall study situation,” “teacher support,” and “employability of Bachelor graduates”; nationwide, the average grade for this field of study was 2.0. Mechanical Engineering students especially appreciate the support from teachers at Of­fen­bur­g, with almost 100 per cent assessing this aspect as “very good” (1) or “good” (2). The University also scored high with regard to “practical relevance/job relevance”: The lab facilities and practical training phases as well as the Career Center were well received by students.

 “Our continued efforts to improve study conditions have paid off,” says Professor Al­fred Isele, Dean at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering, about the favorable assessment of Offenburg’s mechanical-engineering program. “Over the last years we have extensively established tutorials, acquired major equipment – such as a scanning electron microscope, a CT scanner and a la­ser-sin­ter sys­tem for pro­to­ty­pe production  –, and developed many impressive student projects. That this has made studying at Offenburg University especially attractive, and that students take notice, is reflected in the CHE ranking.”

The CHE ranking is the most comprehensive and detailed ranking of higher-education institutions in Germany and other European countries. More than 300 universities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands have been surveyed by the CHE. A third of the study programs are reassessed every year, including the engineering sciences this year.

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