Universities in 2025: A Growth Vision

Embedded in the core tasks of working with knowledge, the study shows the challenging diversity of tasks that a university is charged with, demonstrating the growing importance of these tasks for business and society. At the same time, international competition for scientists and students is getting ever brisker, while mobility is growing and making the task even more challenging. The study points out methods to ensure that these tasks will be met up to 2025, in spite of the difficult frame in which they are set. It calculates ways and means to finance the federal government's target to raise expenditure on universities to 2 percent of GDP by 2020, including the respective shares to be contributed by public and private sources. A tool to match an increase in graduates from educationally challenged strata to private financing is an education loan that will be paid back proportionally to the income achieved. Incentives can be used to further improve the quality of research and teaching and facilitate coordinating the supply of university curricula. Lastly, a set of indicators is proposed to monitor performance at a strategic system level.