What is a university of cooperative education?
UCEs are institutions which only offer dual courses. Even if they don’t exist in all provinces they are approved as a fix component of the german educational system. There are stately UCEs in the provinces Baden Württemberg, Sachsen, Berlin and Thüringen; in Hessen, Niedersachsen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saarland they are financed by private investors. The degree you receive at a UCE used to be a UCE-diploma, but in the meantime several UCEs give the opportunity to attend dual-courses with the bachelor’s degree (e.g. in the provinces Baden-Württemberg and Niedersachsen). These diplomas are accredited and therefore accepted by the educational law. In case of doubt you should check which rules are applied in which province.
