Development of Higher Education in East and West Germany (1960-1990) On the whole, student numbers increased in West Germany, with occasional spurts: twenty-five universities, for example, opened their doors between 1965 and 1975. By contrast, the centrally managed expansion of higher education began earlier in the GDR but was halted by admission quotas in the early 1970s. As a result, the percentage of students in each age group remained constant.
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page 1 of 1 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.
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