Germany is one of the most popular destinations for non-English majors in the world. It is a highly developed capitalist country with a perfect social security system and a very high standard of living. In Germany, higher education is very popular. There are more than 390 institutions of higher learning, including comprehensive universities 12 1 institutes (including universities of science and technology and normal universities), 2 15 universities of applied sciences and 56 art and music colleges. * * * offers nearly16,000 majors.

In China people's cognition, German universities are usually divided into several echelons: TU9? -Nine top German universities of science and technology, including Aachen University of Technology, Berlin University of Technology, Brunswick University of Technology, Darmstadt University of Technology, Dresden University of Technology, Leibniz-Hanover University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, technical university of munich and Stuttgart University. Nine universities can be traced back to a long history, all of which were universities of science and technology established before 1900, enjoying a good reputation in Germany and internationally.

In addition, there are *** 1 1 "elite universities" from German universities: 3 universities of science and engineering (technical university of munich, Dresden University of Technology, Aachen University of Technology) and 8 universities of arts and sciences (Heidelberg University, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Munich, University of Tubingen, University of Constance, University of Cologne, University of Arts and Sciences).

? Factors Affecting the Ranking of Colleges and Universities Ben Sowter, head of QS Research Institute of German Media Economic Weekly, mentioned in an interview that peer evaluation and academic publications in the academic field are highly valued in QS ranking. But in Germany, a large part of basic research is conducted outside universities, such as Max Planck Institute and Flawn Hof Institute. This makes it difficult to measure the output of universities reliably, although the same people often engage in research in universities and non-university research institutes.

The other pot is the language pot. In German universities, most courses are taught in German. Therefore, when scholars and graduates publish academic papers and works, they will also choose to publish in German as the first language. Therefore, from a global perspective, the so-called number of publications and paper citations are mainly in English, so the number is far less than that of works published by British and American universities.