What are the career prospects in Germany for graduates holding a bachelors or masters degree?
As things stand it is not possible to provide any reliable guidance on the career prospects of graduates with bachelor’s or master’s degrees as very few such graduates with German or international degrees are currently active on the German labour market. The Diplom degree is currently established in Germany. In contrast, companies and institutions are not yet familiar with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. This makes it very difficult to evaluate such degrees. Bachelor degrees from different countries can, of course, vary widely both in terms of the length of study required (3-4 years) to obtain them and in their qualitative content (private elite college / community college). Problems evaluating bachelor’s and master’s degrees will almost certainly become less acute in the years ahead as more and more bachelor’s and master’s degree courses are established in Germany itself. Whether a specific degree is accredited or not is bound to play an important role in the assessment of German bac
