The school graduates of the 2022 cohort were surveyed for the first time on various topics six months before their "Abitur" or "Fachhochschulreife". This included questions about their plans for the time after graduation, difficulties in decision-making, support received from their school as well as questions about their career and life goals. Around 22,000 pupils across Germany took part in this first survey.
In December 2022, all students who had given us their contact details in the first survey were invited to take part in a second survey. Topics included how the time after school had gone, the extent to which previous plans for studying, training or starting a career had already been implemented and what other goals the students were pursuing for their future.
The third survey of the 2022 cohort will follow at the end of 2024. Our main focus is on the paths that students have taken in the meantime. We are interested, for example, in how they managed to enter vocational training or higher education, whether and how they made the transition into employment and what their plans are for the future.
You can find the results for this and the other survey years here.