Rankings

Bucerius Law School in Hamburg was ranked number 3 among the top law schools in Germany according the "Handelsblatt Junge Karriere" (Journal for Young Careers) and the "Wirtschaftswoche". With this ranking, the private law school in Hamburg remained in a top placement, as it had been last year. Bucerius ranks just 3.7 percentage points behind the number one seed.

The ranking is based on surveys from the trade publications "Handelsblatt Junge Karriere", "Wirtschaftswoche", the recruiters "Access", as well as public opinion research institute "Universum Communications". 500 human resource managers from a broad spectrum of fields responded to the polls. In 2008, Bucerius Law School was ranked second according to the 5,000 human resource managers polled - 5.1 percentage points from first place.

In the "studiVZ Hochschul-Umfrage" (student body university survey) Bucerius Law School was once again able to uphold its reputation as Germanys best law school. Furthermore the student body has named it the best university in its faculty area in the whole German speaking region. Almost all 2.3 million students from Germany, Austria and German speaking Switzerland are registered with the social networking group studiVZ. Students were requested to fill out a questionnaire, in which among other things they had to evaluate their university.

In the categories facilities, studying conditions and practical relevance, Bucerius Law School was able to secure first place. Such results have also been demonstrated in past rankings. In the fourth category "Studying Location" the law school had to make do with second place behind the University of Bern. This was significantly influenced by the sub-category "Housing Market", due to the fact that there are less apartments vacant in Hamburg and in comparison the city has much higher rents. The law school was again able to secure the leading position in the two sub-categories "feel good aspect of the city" and "feel good aspect of the campus". This reflects the special flair that Germanys first private law school has, and which the students correspondingly reward.

The results of the survey and further details can be found in German at www.studivz.net/l/hochschulranking.

In the May 2008 survey carried out by the magazine "Junge Karriere", Bucerius Law School was ranked second in the field of law.

In addition to the fast track, international and practice oriented course of legal studies at Bucerius Law School, the one-year, English-language "Master of Law and Business" program, jointly offered by Bucerius and the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, was of particular interest to the human resource managers. Bucerius Law School graduates by far exceed the average results normally achieved in Germany for the First State Examination.

The ranking is based on a survey done by the magazine "Junge Karriere" and the employment agency "Access" in cooperation with the service and research company "Universum." They surveyed 5,000 human resource managers from all fields. The main focus of the survey was to pinpoint the universities with the best graduates in their given fields. Secondarily, the survey evaluated the new bachelor and master degree programs.

The Bucerius Law School also has a leading position in the "Berufungskultur-Ranking" in Germany. The ranking was carried out by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV) and was published in their magazine "Forschung & Lehre" (Research and Teaching).

Professional experience is becoming increasingly more "important in order to get the best candidates for the university", and that is why "Forschung & Lehre" developed this ranking. 130 universities were interviewed, six of these were private and eleven areas were looked into and evaluated. Bucerius Law School is one of only two universities which answered positively in all eleven questions.

The current university ranking by the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) places Bucerius Law School at the top of four out of five academic categories ("modules"). Considering the number of single criteria ("indicators"), Bucerius Law School ranks as Germany's number one university for the study of law. The latest ranking results were published on May 7, 2008 in the ZEIT-Studienführer 2008/2009 and in the internet...

Bucerius Law School ranked extremely high in the categories of research funds, library equipment, mentoring and the overall study situation. In essential single criteria, Bucerius Law School ranked highest overall.

In the May 2007 survey done by the magazine “karriere,“ Bucerius Law School was ranked first in the field of law. The private law school in Hamburg was able to retain its leading position from the previous year. In the category “Assessment by H&R managers,” Bucerius Law School even moved up two places.  

The ranking is based on a survey of 50,000 students and graduates as well as human resource managers from 1,000 companies.  

In the category “Assessment by students,” current students and alumni evaluated their universities via an online questionnaire. Using a scale of 1 (very satisfied/very good) to 6 (very dissatisfied/very poor), criteria such as teaching, equipment, practical relevance, job preparation and the connection to the economy were evaluated.  

In the category “Assessment by H&R managers,” the human resource managers of 1,000 companies were asked to name up to five universities and universities for applied sciences per subject from which they recruit the best applicants.  

The results for the field of law are available in German online at www.karriere.de.

In the university survey done by the magazine "WirtschaftsWoche" (in the March 12, 2007 issue), Bucerius Law School was ranked second in the field of law. Compared to last year’s results, they were able to move up one place. Last year, Munich and Freiburg tied for second place and Münster and BLS tied for third place.

Therefore, Bucerius was able to outstrip three universities. In cooperation with the employment agency, Access and Universum Communications, the WirtschaftsWoche surveyed more than 1,000 human resource managers in Germany to find out from which universities the qualitative best applicants come.

In the university survey done by the magazine "karriere" (May issue, published on April 28, 2006), Bucerius Law School ranked first in the field of law. Bucerius participated in the survey for the first time.  

This ranking is based on a survey of students, graduates and human resource managers of large companies as well as objective criteria like length of studies, student/faculty ratio and internationality.

In the university survey done by the magazine "WirtschaftsWoche" (in the March 13, 2006 issue), Bucerius Law School, participating for the first time, was ranked third in the field of law.

The WirtschaftsWoche, together with the employment agency Access in Cologne, wrote to more than 1,000 human resource managers of large companies in Germany and asked from which universities the qualitative best applicants come. Based on the rankings of the Wirtschaftswoche, it is possible to predict the universities where the students have the best career prospects.

In the field of law, Bucerius Law School tied with the University of Münster for third place behind the University of Heidelburg (ranked first) and the Universities of Freiburg and Munich (tied for second).

To read the article in German, go to Wirtschaftswoche’s internet site and enter "Bucerius Law School" in the search field.

In the survey done by the economic magazine “Capital” (July 2005), Bucerius Law School was ranked second in the area "practice orientation."

The ranking is based on a survey of human resource managers from the 250 largest companies in Germany.

The online version of this article in German can be found here.

In the most recent comprehensive survey done by the magazine "Der Spiegel" (issue 48/2004), Bucerius Law School ranked first.

The article in German can either be found here or at www.studentenspiegel.de.