Linking of Materials Science and Materials Engineering principles; specific course-based lectures with manageable audience numbers; good support for student work; good placement of students who have to/can prepare their papers in the industry; large proportion of practical work and work placements.

practice-related, worldwide collaborations; closed value chain almost nearly unparalleled at institutions of higher education worldwide; 2 English-language Master´s degree programmes at the Faculty

Servohydraulic biaxial test system with induction heating; special laboratory for highly dynamic materials testing (only German university to have a lab with this type of equipment); universal electron beam system proBeam K26 80/15 (the most up-to-date system of this kind in the world); systems for controlled thermochemical heat treatment; high-resolution analytical transmission electron microscope for microstructural analysis at atomic level; Spark plasma sintering plant; ISA Smelt pilot plant; Technical centre for electrolysis; Vacuum melting furnace for titanium alloys; Additive manufacturing

Research in the areas: Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology, Foundry Engineering, Metal Working, Steel Technology, Non-Iron Metallurgy. Interdisciplinary research focus areas: Collaborative Research Centre 920: Multi-functional filters for metal melt filtration; Saxon Alliance for Material- and Resource-Efficient Technologies (AMARETO); Saxony Lightweight-Construction Alliance

SAXEED Freiberg; Start-up network of the four universities in southwestern Saxony

Diploma degree courses are available; good support ratio; Extensive sports portfolio