Decentralised, faculty-specific quality management concepts formulated on the basis of university-wide guidelines meet the needs of homogeneous/heterogeneous subject cultures and reflect their special positions.

Therefore, evaluation of degree programmes initially takes place in regular quality round tables, broadly enabling all stakeholders to discuss the degree programme, its quality and prospects for development, and to deal with challenges together. These quality round tables are the heart of the decentralised procedure, subjecting all the content assessment criteria to discussion at least once each accreditation cycle (period until the first assessment/between two central assessments). They generally take place every 1-2 years (every three years for some smaller degree programmes in the Faculty of Humanities).

External reviewers are explicitly involved in these decentralised approaches where they can have the greatest effect in direct contact with all those involved in the degree programme. Other guidelines of the QA system are: ensuring clear documentation of results and the measures taken (a basic principle of the decentralised procedure) and its incorporation at all stages of the faculties’/institutions’ quality control loops and the work of responsible offices, boards and bodies.

All the Offices of the Deans of Studies have developed their own decentralised QA concepts based on the guidelines and reconciled them with Student and Academic Services. These include specific plans on the structure of the quality round tables (frequency, subject matter, timing and nature of involvement of external reviewers), a provisional timetable up to the 2026/27 winter semester, and a plan for bundling degree programmes, as is already standard in programme accreditations. There are approximately 60 clusters, in some cases interfaculty, for the entire university.