The aversion towards the promotion of a few selected university is also apparent in the fact that the only wide-scale national program for financing elite struc

The aversion towards the promotion of a few selected university is also apparent in the fact that the only wide-scale national program for financing elite structures, the "excellence initiative", is subject to quite a bit of criticism (recent piece in the Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/exzellenzinitiative-elite-uni-programm-soll-ueberprueft-werden-a-993047.html http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/exzellenzinitiative...).