Year | Number of educational institutions | Number of students | Number of first-year students | Diplomas and corresponding exams | Teacher-certifcation exams | Ph.D. exams | Academic personnel | Universities and other educational institutions, such as art colleges, in the FRG | 1960 | 131 | 246,939 | 53,313 | 16,458 | 11,143 | 5,874 | · | 1965 | 126 | 308,022 | 54,430 | 20,282 | 20,408 | 6,971 | · | 1970 | 123 | 421,976 | 86,649 | 26,192 | 25,382 | 10,515 | · | 1975 | 116 | 691,289 | 123,405 | 33,669 | 40,349 | 11,418 | 89,274 | 1980 | 114 | 836,502 | 126,555 | 46,331 | 30,452 | 12,222 | 109,698 | 1985 | 119 | 1,035,669 | 152,766 | 61,083 | 22,883 | 14,951 | 116,373 | 1990 | 126 | 1,208,018 | 179,186 | 81,524 | 10,231 | 18,494 | 135,543 | Universities of applied sciences (including colleges for administrative studies) in der FRG | 1975 | 97 | 144,713 | 41,166 | 31,865 | x | x | 14,304 | 1980 | 115 | 199,801 | 49,274 | 34,675 | x | x | 17,685 | 1985 | 122 | 301,005 | 64,643 | 48,003 | x | x | 22,639 | 1990 | 122 | 370,988 | 77,503 | 55,852 | x | x | 27,597 | Higher education institutions (not counting technical schools) in der GDR | 1960 | 44 | 99,860 | 30,081 | · | · | · | · | 1965 | 44 | 111,591 | 24,735 | 14,652 | 6,226 | · | 13,184 | 1970 | 54 | 143,163 | 43,975 | 15,526 | 6,694 | 3,930 | 21,219 | 1975 | 54 | 136,854 | 34,390 | 28,839 | 7,682 | 3,496 | 26,112 | 1980 | 53 | 129,970 | 31,949 | 18,065 | 6,135 | 3,343 | 28,848 | 1985 | 54 | 129,885 | 31,583 | 18,636 | 6,410 | 4,467 | 30,331 | 1989 | 54 | 131,188 | 31,531 | 18,504 | 5,663 | 4,545 | 31,754 | Source: Table 14.1. Basic Data on Colleges 1960-1990 – FRG and GDR – compiled by the Working Group for Educational Reporting at the Max-Planck-Institut for Research on Education, Das Bildungswesen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [The Educational System in the Federal Republic of Germany]. Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1994, pp. 636-37. |