For the third time in a row, the HSZG is one of the top ten universities in Germany in the MeinProf university ranking.
"The Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences took 5th place in the MeinProf University Ranking 2016 and 6th place in the MeinProf University Ranking for >understandability of teaching<!" The letter from Oliver Bialas, 1st Chairman of MeinProf e. V., continues: "The students at your university are committed and satisfied because they have given their lecturers top marks for the quality of their teaching. So good that you are an integral part of the MeinProf university ranking - congratulations!"
For thethird time, Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences is one of Germany's ten top-rated universities. 152 universities were included in the ranking. Students were asked about the quality of teaching at their university. However, individual lecturers were also assessed. The top-rated lecturers at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences include Dr. Jana Reinhold from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Sandro Hänseroth from the Faculty of Social Sciences Dipl.-Soz.Arb./Soz.Päd. (FH).
The Rector, Prof. Friedrich Albrecht, is very pleased with this result. "I am delighted that our university has once again made it into the TOP TEN and, above all, with such an excellent ranking. What's more, we are theonly university in eastern Germany to be ranked . I see this as a special recognition of the achievements of our teaching staff and also as an incentive not to let up in our continuous efforts to improve the quality of teaching. In recent years, both students and lecturers have become more aware of the need to assess, communicate, discuss and focus on the quality of teaching," he says. He continues: "In addition, the university now also has considerably more tools and resources for quality development in teaching. Colleagues working in teaching complete further training in higher education didactics and evaluate their courses more extensively and systematically. Communication between lecturers and students is an integral part of everyday life at all faculties. There is also the opportunity to reward good teaching through performance-related pay. For example, the university's support association has awarded a teaching prize.
The university receives additional funding from the federal and state governments from the so-called Higher Education Pact funds. At least some of these funds have to be acquired competitively, for example the Quality Pact for Teaching.
From the students' perspective, it should be noted that they have particularly benefited from the measures supplementing teaching in recent years, be it additional courses - for people with performance deficits, but also for particularly high achievers - or special advisory services, which have a preventive effect, so to speak, against dropping out of studies. The university also relies on "peer-to-peer", e.g. with the "Students advise students" program. All this and more has led to an improved quality culture in teaching on both sides, the lecturers and the students. This is expressed, for example, by the fact that the efforts made by lecturers are reflected in increasingly positive evaluations of their satisfaction with the courses on portals such as meinprof.de."
Further information at: www.meinprof.de/hochschulranking
MeinProf.de was launched in fall 2005 as the first Germany-wide evaluation platform for courses. The aims of the non-profit organization MeinProf e.V. are to stimulate public discourse on the quality of teaching in order to give it more attention than research and to improve the quality of German university teaching in the long term. Since 2007, MeinProf has published an annual university ranking that focuses solely on the quality of teaching.