This article gives an overview of the currently heavily sought after dual studies, including statistics and a future Outlook. Do you know your way with a dual degree? This article highlights this new and currently heavily sought after model in detail, lists statistics and gives tips for the search after the appropriate studies. Dual studies the emergence of the basic conditions that enable today's dual studies, were already created in the 1970s. At that time resulted in the nationwide expansion of the school system a student or high school senior flood, so the universities came to their limits. This large run on the colleges let arise the question to what extent a mass study at University and University of applied sciences had grown even the requirements of personal development and also tailored training for the economy. In the course of this discussion, the idea came up in Baden-Wurttemberg, to make the training through the connection with University elements, so theoretical lessons parts, more attractive. By the enthusiasm of school leavers for a normal was the large crowds at the universities, namely"training plummeted.

The cornerstone of dual training was designed in 1972 with the Stuttgart-based model. In the following years, this system of increasingly growing demand was, however, a shortcoming by the hand was to have: the graduates of universities and FHs had the better career opportunities with their academic degree. By the recommendation of the Minister of culture in 1995, as a result in the future to handle the graduates from vocational colleges such as the graduates from universities of applied sciences, this disadvantage has been finally fixed. And through the Bologna process, so the introduction of Bachelor and master courses, introduced this form of academic studies at vocational colleges. 2009 was the first college dedicated to only the dual study followed. The dual Hochschule Baden-Wurttemberg is now "with over 25,000 students from one of the largest universities of in Germany." Dual studies Development and statistics show the meteoric rise of dual studies especially studies of the Federal Institute for vocational training (BIBB), which are shown below.