Abstract
The Universität zu Berlin, later renamed Humboldt Universität, was founded in 1810, and revolutionized the concept of a university to research institutions. While Humboldt is today in urgent need of reform, this university also forms the key part of the history of German higher education over the past 200 years. Humboldt University used to be the most successful university system in the world, which became a sclerotic and bureaucratic behemoth and only recently started to renew itself.
Highlights
With far too many (162) institutions, the average number at each one is about 900 students—no way to attain economies of scale
The average number of students in Chinese institutions was 3,112 in 1990, up from 1,919 in 1990, when about 80 percent of higher education institutions had less than 4,000 students and 60 percent had less than 3,000 students
Other countries are dealing with similar problems, especially at the outset of privatization, when an overabundance of small colleges spring up with little to offer in the way of quality instruction
Summary
With far too many (162) institutions, the average number at each one is about 900 students—no way to attain economies of scale. The quality of private higher education has yet to surpass that of the public institutions. Winning the best academic staff should be a priority, but the state of the economy greatly inhibits the ability of colleges and universities to attract and retain the talent needed to significantly improve the quality and competitiveness of higher education.
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