In the higher education sector, there are according to Higher Education Act, three types of courses: bachelor, master and doctoral degree programs. They are, in terms of admission, amount of ECTS points, as well as the associated titles and degrees, regulated by law.

The Higher Education Act supplements the National Qualifications Framework by defining the admission and degree competences for each level and describing the qualifications within the levels, the associated learning outcomes and the average amount of work required to achieve these learning outcomes.

With the goal of describing qualification levels, as well the development and classification of the corresponding qualifications, uniform criteria have been laid down. The NQ.FL-HS defines each level by means of the following criteria:

• Description of qualification levels in higher education in terms of the conditions for admission;
• Generic descriptors for the description of learning outcomes for the bachelor, master, and doctoral level;
• Profiles of courses of study for the description of alignment features and objectives of training courses;
• Measurement of program achievement through credit points (ECTS).