Awards and certificates

We attach great importance to creating the optimal conditions for the compatibility of work, study, and family. The family-friendly infrastructure of our campus was audited in 2006, 2010 and 2013 by berufundfamilie gGmbH of the Hertie Foundation and found to be of a good standard. In 2016, the University of Bayreuth joined the best practice club "Family in Higher Education" and signed the corresponding charter.

Fully-accessible studying - we work every day to make this possible at our university. Every student at our university should have the same opportunity to obtain a university degree. With or without a handicap, everyone should be able to participate in social life on an equal footing. For its efforts, the University of Bayreuth received the 2017 'Bavaria Barrier-Free' award from Bernd Sibler in his function as State Secretary for Science.

Think globally – act locally. We acknowledge the responsibility we have as a university through our consumption choices. We aim to help improve the living conditions of all people in our various supply chains. That is why we have already switched many products to Fairtrade. For this, we were the first university in the Free State of Bavaria to receive an award. This is both an honour and an obligation for us.

To provide students with a high level of professional competence, to promote the development of their personality and also to enable them to become socially involved – all of our degree programmes are geared towards these goals. To ensure that the required quality standards are met, we have developed our own quality assurance system. This is accredited by the Accreditation Council until 2030.

In 2012/13, we submitted our internationalization strategy to the "Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions" of the German Rectors' Conference audit for the first time. The successful completion of the three-year re-audit in October 2019 certifies that our university has committed itself to clear internationalization goals and is systematically pursuing them.

Appointment and retention negotiations at the University of Bayreuth are characterised by fairness, appreciation, transparency, and reliability. For this, the University of Bayreuth was awarded the seal of quality of the German University Association (DHV) for fair and transparent appointment negotiations in 2018.

In order to make it easier for student athletes to balance their studies and top-level sport, the German University Sports Association (adh) initiated the "Partner University of Top-level Sport" project with various partners. The University of Bayreuth has boasted this title since June 2018.

We work consistently to enable healthy living, working, and studying at the University of Bayreuth. In 2020, the University of Bayreuth was awarded the Healthy Workforce quality seal of the nationwide Corporate Health Initiative. The seal recognizes outstanding concepts and measures in the area of health promotion.

Students give the University of Bayreuth top marks for the level of digitalization on campus. A total of 12,715 students at 239 universities and colleges in Germany voted and ranked the University of Bayreuth first among the universities. UniNow GmbH, a provider of campus apps, presented the Digital Campus Awards. UniNow's Digital Campus Index provides an overview of student satisfaction with digitalization at their university. It assesses the digital quality of lectures, equipment, administration and other areas at the university.