Generous, modern practical facilities, close interdisciplinary integration with the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the entire FAU; very good equipment; CIP computer rooms at 3 locations for students from the department.

The 2 Master's courses AOT and MAP (led by the Department of Materials Science, but 50% CBI share) are held entirely in English. Thanks to the close integration with excellence projects, they are far more international in nature than other degree courses. Work is currently ongoing to establish another Master's degree course held entirely in English.

State-of-the-art labs with generous range of equipment for handling an extremely wide range of research. The close ties to one another and the inter-disciplinary research institutes creates a virtually complete installation that ranges from traditional research facilities to ultra-modern, project-specific test facilities and extensive measurement technology through to a high resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM).

The CBI Department completely covers the four building blocks (Technical Chemistry, Biotechnology, Process Engineering and Product Design and Thermal Fluid Dynamics; unique collaborations with the Engineering of Advanced Materials excellence cluster, the Graduate School of Optical Technologies, research institutes of the Fraunhofer Society (two in Erlangen), Max Planck, newly established research facilities (Energy Campus Nuremberg, Bavarian Hydrogen Campus), currently two Collaborative Research Centres and one Research Training Group, several major EU projects and a large number of other projects.

Professors have excellent expertise in this field, department spin-offs have won multiple awards (e.g. Hydrogeniums Technologies)

The Academic Guidance Centre of the CBI is open daily for student counselling, transfer students, incoming and outgoing students, credit recognition and internships. Extremely good ranking for the FAU and in the field of Process Engineering in the 2021 "DFG-Förderatlas" report; two Leibnitz prizewinners teach and conduct research at the department; several ERC grants are being worked on in the CBI, including with the involvement of students; excellent career prospects for graduates