The job and business magazine "career" also provides each year to a high school ranking. The current career Uniranking 2008 has just been published and created by young career with Reuters and Business Week.
No time students, but HR 5000 were surveyed for this ranking, mostly from companies with 1000 employees or more. This presentation focused on the conversion of the old university system to bachelor's and master's degrees. Most of the steps as a bachelor's degree is still inferior and are of the opinion that only a master's degree can keep up with the diploma. But this setting does not mean the end for bachelor graduates, but rather the chance to convince the respective companies with the personal skills. One should also not forget that most respondents come from large companies and smaller, often maintain closer contacts with the universities, thus less were considered.
The HR managers have filled out a form with questions about job prospects, preferred disciplines and desired qualifications of applicants and stated their opinion, best universities for each subject. The results are as follows:
» The top 10 universities for business studies:
1 Mannheim 57.8%
2 Cologne 33.0%
3 Muenster 32.7%
4 WHU Vallendar 28.5%
5 LMU 26.0%
6 EBS Oestrich-angle 17.6%
7 Frankfurt 12.6%
8 HHL Leipzig 9.2%
9 KU Eichstätt Ingolstadt, 8.6%
10th Erlangen-Nuremberg 5.5%
» The top 10 universities for Economics:
1 Bonn 66.8%
2 Cologne 37.6%
3 Mannheim 33.4%
4 LMU 20.9%
5 Freiburg 12.5%
6 Muenster 10.5%
7 Constance 10.4%
8 Tubingen 9.0%
9 HU Berlin 8.4%
10th Bayreuth 4.2%
» The top 10 universities for law:
1 Heidelberg 20.3%
2 Bucerius in Hamburg 15.2%
3 Freiburg 13.4%
4 LMU 12.7%
4 Muenster 12.7%
6 Passau 10.6%
7 Bonn 10.1%
8 Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), 6.7%
8 Tubingen 6.7%
10th HU Berlin 5.4%
» The top 10 universities for industrial engineering:
1 Karlsruhe 53.1%
2 Darmstadt 35.9%
3 TU Berlin 9.5%
4 Dresden
5 TU Hamburg 6.5%
6 Kaiserslautern 5.4%
7 Ilmenau 4.5%
8 Clausthal 4.0%
9 Brunswick 3.8%
9 Erlangen-Nuremberg 3.8%
» The Top 10 colleges for Industrial Engineering:
1 Karlsruhe 12.5%
2 Munich 10.4%
3 Mannheim 8.3%
4 HTW Berlin 7.3%
5 Esslingen 6.3%
6 Würzburg-Schweinfurt 6.1%
7 Ingolstadt 5.3%
8 Pforzheim 5.2%
9 Frankfurt 4.2%
9 Nuremberg 4.2%
9 Ulm 4.2%
9 Wiesbaden 4.2%
• Criticism:
The estimates of the HR can not be applied exactly as in practice. There are even many companies, which the university graduates is not important, but other criteria such as grades or additional qualifications. In many programs, a comparison is problematic because it is partly to very different orientations. Moreover, this university ranking naturally takes only a few fields of study under the microscope, so it may not be helpful for many aspiring students.
