Guidelines and Standards

Besides the statutory framework, quality management in teaching and learning at the University of Göttingen is also specifically based on a range of internal and external guidelines and recommendations.

In detail, this takes into account the following (as amended):

  • Lower Saxony Higher Education Act
  • Lower Saxony Higher Education Admissions Act
  • Agreement on targets and performance between the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture
  • Regulations on Quality Management in Student and Academic Services and the Evaluation of Teaching at the University of Göttingen (QMO-SL)
  • Study accreditation state treaty
  • Lower Saxony study education order (until effective: specimen statutory order for the study accreditation state treaty)
  • Content-related assessment criteria for internal accreditation of degree programmes (Resolution of the Senate of the University of Göttingen dated 23.01.2019)
  • Qualification framework for German university degrees dated 16.02.2017
  • Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG)
  • Joint structural guidelines of the Accreditation Council for the accreditation of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes (due to expire)
  • Rules of the Accreditation Council for the accreditation of degree programmes and for system accreditation (due to expire)
  • Resolution of the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) “Qualitätssicherung in der Hochschulforschung” dated 03.03.2006
  • Audit trail for the degree programme concepts submitted by universities to establish agreement with the Federal State’s higher education strategy dated 05.12.2018 (Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture)
  • Guidelines and criteria for the accreditation of doctoral degree programmes in Lower Saxony dated 10.07.2015 (Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture)
  • Guidelines on the use of study quality funds at the University of Göttingen
  • Regulations of the University of Göttingen to ensure good academic practice
  • Guideline on the prevention of and protection against sexualised harassment and violence of the Georg-August University Göttingen including the University Medical Center Göttingen
last updated: 30.03.2023 09:40