Título: Implementation of International Master’s Programmes in Engineering Education in Germany
Autor: Strenger, Natascha; Frerich, Sulamith
Resumen: [EN] This paper introduces the framework conditions of the internationalization
process of the higher education system in Germany and gives an overview of
the implementation of international Master’s programmes in engineering
education and the characteristics of student migrants in this field of studies.
Developments on the macro-level clearly indicate political interest to attract
more international students for German universities and the technical
disciplines in Germany are already very successful in this endeavour. With a
special focus on higher education reforms in engineering, this paper is based
on an investigation directed at the meso-level, the motivations and strategies
at the level of university and faculties for establishing such international
study programmes. The results of a qualitative study will be presented that
was conducted at the engineering faculties of the Ruhr-Universität in
Bochum between December 2014 and August 2015. With the overall aim of
investigating in how far the decisions made on university and faculty levels
are related to the general political endeavors to attract international talent,
the different stakeholders’ interests and implementation strategies such as
language policy were considered
