The University of Siegen has a great interest in finding out what were the main reasons for leaving the university and what experiences you had after taking this step.

The answers you provide will make a major contribution to improving studies and teaching. Only through your feedback can study programs be reflected upon and possibly adapted.

Future prospective students can also benefit from your experiences.

All former students of the academic year in question can take part. If, for example, the academic year 2025 is invited to participate in the alumni survey, only those former students who left the University of Siegen in the winter semester 2024/2025 or in the summer semester 2025 can take part in the survey.

Former students will receive an invitation by letter.

ISTAT generates a six-digit access code consisting of numbers and letters for all participating former students. You can only take part in the alumni survey using this access code. It is possible to interrupt answering the questions at any time and continue at a later date.

In addition, the University of Siegen can use the access code to exclude those former students who have already taken part in the survey from the next contact.

The access code contains some data relevant to the survey, which was sent to ISTAT in advance to generate the questionnaires. In detail, this is the following data:

• PIN
• Personal data: Gender, year of birth, German or foreign nationality (without naming the country)
• Enrollment data: Type of degree (Bachelor, Master, etc., partially aggregated), field of study (partially aggregated), semester of leaving the university
• Reason for exmatriculation

With the help of this transmitted data, you will be assigned directly to the correct questionnaire. Information on the examination only needs to be confirmed. The personal data is relevant for the evaluation of the alumni survey.

You can only take part in the alumni survey via an online questionnaire. The online questionnaire is created and provided by ISTAT. All data is transmitted in encrypted form.

The University of Siegen does not know at any time which answers were given by which access code. It only knows which access code has been logged in and will not be contacted again. Your personal data and your answers are not connected in any way. The results are published collectively. If it is possible to draw conclusions about individual persons due to an insufficient number of cases, the answers given will not be included in the evaluation.

Once the survey has been completed, the data required to conduct the survey will be deleted by the University of Siegen.

ISTAT coordinates the project and advises the universities on the design of the study, the development of the questionnaire and the evaluation of the results. ISTAT is also responsible for conducting the online survey and integrating the individual university surveys into a common data set and provides the universities with ready-to-print tabular evaluations of the surveys. In addition, ISTAT analyzes the reasons for the respective study course decision.

The results of the alumni survey are published on the homepage.

Your address data is taken from the University of Siegen's campus management system (unisono). If we are unable to contact the former students at the address given, we will try to find them with the help of the citizens' offices and the Internet.

How is data protection guaranteed?

There is a contractually stipulated and legally binding agreement between the University of Siegen and ISTAT on how the survey results will be handled. In addition, the University of Siegen ensures compliance with data protection regulations.