This monitoring covers the admission regulations of very popular bachelor and diploma degree programs (architecture, biology, education, foreign languages, computer science, pharmacy, business administration/economics, communication studies, law), degree programs subject to the German numerus clausus (medicine, psychology, veterinary medicine), as well as very popular bachelor and diploma degree programs at individual universities.
The main research questions address the development of the number of study beginners regarding sociodemographic characteristics and changes in sociodemographic composition of applicants in the stages of admission procedures. Several data sources are used: administrative data of the Ministry of Education, Science and Research, “UHStat1”-data of the federal statistical office, data of the universities, and data from a survey among applicants.