State degree

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A state qualification is the legally binding label for a successfully completed study or training course under state supervision.

State-certified business economist - diploma

While universities (eg universities , colleges of education , polytechnics and art schools ) degrees awarded (university degree), content themselves more educational institutions in the so-called tertiary education , such as vocational colleges and technical schools , for the successful degrees with so-called "State designations".

The graduates of former engineering schools , which were dissolved in the 1960s / 70s in favor of the new technical colleges, were not awarded their degree as a degree, but as an academic designation, for example Ing. , Ing. (Grad.) , Betriebswirt (grad.) . State qualifications are awarded by advanced training schools / technical academies that train state-certified business economists , state-certified computer scientists , state-certified technicians , state-certified designers , etc. In addition, there are also vocational schools and vocational college courses at other vocational institutions that assign job titles with the addition “state-tested”. The state-recognized training occupations also belong to the state qualifications .

The state qualifications do not include all academic degrees and professional titles that are recognized after vocational training (regardless of the educational institution) and a certain professional experience and are provided with the addition “state recognized”.

The following qualifications are considered state qualifications:

  • Job titles acquired through a state examination
  • State degrees such as Diplom - ... (BA) or Bachelor at vocational academies (these are not academic degrees)
  • Job titles that begin with the term Staatlichprüfte (r)…
  • Job titles with the addition of state-checked

Individual evidence

  1. University Framework Act in the version of April 12, 2007.
  2. Berufsakademie laws or higher education laws of some countries, e.g. B. Section 91 (6) LHG Baden-Württemberg of January 1, 2005.