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Only six percent of undergraduate beginners complete their studies in six semesters. A current IHS study shows that dropouts mostly occur in the first year of study. At universities of applied sciences, the balance is significantly better.
A degree in the normal period is only the exception in Austrian universities: only six percent of bachelor’s beginners in the 2012/13 winter semester finished their studies in the usual standard period of six semesters, an additional report shows from the 2019 Student Social Survey from the Institute for Higher Education Studies (IHS), to be presented at a conference on Thursday. After eight semesters, the success rate increases to 24 percent, after 14 semesters it is 47 percent.
After these seven years (in addition to the 47 percent
Graduates) 36 percent dropped out and 17 percent are still enrolled; therefore, the latter group can still successfully complete their training. By the way, dropouts are already recorded in the first year of study: after the first two semesters, almost a fifth of all undergraduate beginners have dropped out of all university studies, which represents more than half of all dropouts counted until the 14th semester.
In university graduates (introductory course 2010) the situation is
very similar. After the standard eight-semester study period there, only three percent have completed their studies, eleven percent after ten semesters, and 38 percent after 14 semesters. After 18 semesters almost half was finished.
Better results in universities of applied sciences
The situation in universities of applied sciences is completely different: 71
Percentage of undergraduate students in academic year 2012/13 in
Full-time and 55 percent of students part-time
Degree courses completed their training in the standard time of six
Semesters, after eight semesters it was 78 and 63 percent respectively. Subsequently, this success rate hardly increased, after twelve semesters it was 80 or 66 percent. Virtually all the rest were discontinued after this period. There were also dropouts at FH, especially in the first two semesters.
By the way, women are more likely to complete their studies successfully than
Men: in public universities, the difference in success rates after 14 semesters is around four percentage points (women: 48 percent, men 44 percent, in universities of applied sciences twelve percentage points (full-time courses : 85 percent versus 73 percent, part-time courses: 73 versus 61 percent) If women drop out of college, they drop out earlier than men in college.
Students from Germany are faster
Other socioeconomic characteristics: Students older than first year
are less likely to complete their studies than
Younger first semester students with a vocational qualification or college entrance qualification test have lower success rates than those with AHS or BHS Matura. In addition, high school graduates from
Educational institutions of primary or social education less frequently
Studies than other BHS high school graduates. And: students from South Tyrol and Germany study at universities faster and more successfully than Austrians until the fourteenth semester; students from other countries, on the other hand, drop out more frequently and progress more slowly.
According to the study groups, the
Medical diploma studies have by far the highest success rates (76 percent). On the contrary, it is more difficult to make precise statements in degree programs: here a distinction is made between whether the degree program started in 2012/13 was completed or any other degree after a degree change. The highest success rates in the course that has already started are found in the small study group Services (especially sports) with 54 percent and in educational studies (37 percent) and social sciences (34 percent).
Lower success rate in computer science universities
In contrast, first-year humanities and business law students are more likely to complete a different degree than the one they started in 2012/13.
(Humanities: 21 percent graduation in started course compared to 27 percent in another; business law: 14 percent in started course, 36 percent in another course.) In business law, this is likely due to the fact that
Business University, at least until the introduction of the admissions procedure in the 2013/14 academic year, often both business law and
Be enrolled in economic and social sciences.
At universities of applied sciences, degrees are offered in
Health / social services completed with particular frequency
(Full-time courses: 91 percent, part-time: 89 percent),
technical studies, however, are less common. The lowest is that
Success rate in IT (full time: 63 percent,
extra occupational: 53 percent).
