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The financing of higher education in Germany involves a complex network of actors and institutions from the private and public sectors. Determining who contributes what to the financing requires considerable research and data processing as part of an in-depth structural analysis. Such an analysis for the year 2023 shows that the private and public sectors in Germany spent a total of around ¤59.806 billion on higher education (excluding research).

The article outlines the structure and use of agreements and contracts at various levels within the German higher education system, examines the process of developing such agreements, and provides an overview of the main points of criticism levelled against them. It also includes a current overview of agreements at the state-university level, covering all German federal states.

On behalf of the Berlin Senate Department for Science, the DZHW conducted a comparative study of the status of the transfer of appointment rights to universities in different federal states. First, the higher education laws of all German federal states were subjected to a comparative analysis, and on this basis, six states were selected for in-depth case studies. In these states, further documents were evaluated and individual interviews were conducted with one representative from each state's Ministry of Science; later, the interviewees came together for a two-day workshop. On this basis, it was possible to differentiate between different approaches and forms of implementation in the transfer of appointment rights to universities.