Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution (M.Sc.)

Wie gut ist deine Hochschule digital aufgestellt? I did not know that printed paper certificates for class credit/grades were still a thing before I came to Tübingen University. The ASHE program is one of the last ones that still use these. We would sometimes get our grades online, sometimes on paper (but still had to hand them in to the examination office either per mail or e-mail), but never knew beforehand which one it would be. We had to email the examination office and lecturers multiple times (most of the time without an answer) over the course of months to finally have credits put on our transcripts. I waited over a year for some grades. The whole process was annoying and anxiety inducing to say the least. Some of us depended on their grades to keep their scholarships and applying for a PhD missing half your credits isn't exactly ideal. Overall, the ASHE program's digital presence was still severely lacking when we graduated and needs to be completely restructured, if they want to avoid the same mess in the future.

Wie gut ist deine Hochschule digital aufgestellt? The easiest way to put the digital position of the university is to describe to circumstances of it. There is one student portal for registering to courses, to get grades etc. The site is broken in a way that professors are only able to enter grades for certain students, for example, without any possible explanation. Although the university claims to be very international, most of the information is only accesible in German. Reaching the professors online is not also a guarantee, waiting weeks or maybe even months for a simple answer is not uncommon or surprising. But to be fair, reaching non-academic stuff in person is impossible, so it puts thing a bit in perspective.