Einen interessanten Blick von außen auf die Veränderungen in der Universitätenlandschaft findet man beim IHT. Education overhaul shakes up German universities:

German universities are trying to reorganize along the lines of the United States without first having the resources of a Harvard or a Yale. […] No one thought to lock down the resources first, and there is no tradition in Germany to finance non-practical kinds of knowledge gathering.