System accreditation

System accreditation is the university-internal control and quality management of teaching and learning. The goal is to check, secure and if needed improve the quality of the degree programs using a catalog of criteria. It thus replaces the previous program accreditation, in which an individual course or a course cluster was checked for compliance with minimum standards.

Advantages of the conversion
The faculty is able to check the courses independently and to make changes promptly. A hierarchy-neutral, dialog-oriented and discursive exchange in Quality Cycle guarantees a broad inclusion of all involved stakeholders. By directly documenting the quality assessment, the reporting system has been kept as narrow as possible.

Procedure
The courses are divided into clusters based on language. All criteria are assessed and discussed at least once within one cycle. A cycle ends with a central evaluation roundtable. Quality Cycles consist of representatives of teaching staff, students, administration and external experts. The participants discuss the individual criteria with the help of frameworks and data from the course monitoring and student surveys. They convey recommendations in form of a catalog of measures to the councils.