With the project ‘Increasing student success’, the university wants to analyse which factors and measures can promote the success of its students. Students are at the centre of the project. All phases of the student life cycle are of interest - starting with prospective students and ending with alumni (pathways through the degree programme). In this context, the identification of favourable and unfavourable factors for ‘student success’ is central. Exemplary questions that are dealt with in the course of the research are:

What influence does being well-informed before starting your studies have on a successful degree programme and to what extent can our university make a supportive contribution in this regard?

What are the specific reasons for drop-outs at our university and how can the university counteract this?

The methodological approach within the project is evidence-based and action-orientated. Key data and study progress analyses as well as quantitative and qualitative surveys are used to get to the bottom of issues. The results in the area of Monitoring & Evaluationthus arise on the one hand from project-specific issues and on the other hand from issues arising from the university's quality management system. As part of the internal (re-)accreditation of degree programmes, the project team provides support in answering individual, programme-relevant questions and thus identifies factors that promote and hinder student success in order to develop and promote meaningful measures, for example in the area of teaching. There is therefore close cooperation with the Office for Quality in Teaching and Learning and the respective programme directors.

All project measures are analysed in terms of their transfer potential (University development).

150,000 is available annually as part of the project to provide start-up funding for projects in the area of teaching. This funding is awarded by the Senate Committee for Quality and Teaching (SQL). You can find out more at: Förderprojekte der Hochschule.

The project is being carried out in cooperation with the TU Kaiserslautern. Both universities regularly coordinate the individual project steps and results with each other and thus enable a cross-university transfer of knowledge, which ultimately benefits the students of both universities. Further information about our project partner can be found here.