Inter-disciplinary character of the teaching staff and the degree courses, ranging from Engineering Sciences and Computer Science to Natural Sciences and Economics; Small group sizes; Learning in projects and laboratories; Several degree programmes with vocational and academic elements. Projects and theses are formed in company for the practical study phase.

Trinational course of study Master of Science "European Railway Systems” (international advanced Master's degree programme), career-integrated with a double degree. Exchange programme with the Zhejiang University of Science and Technology (ZUST) in China, Hangzhou with a double degree for Chinese students. Confucius Institute at Erfurt University of Applied Sciences.

Fachhochschule St. Pölten, Österreich; Staatliche Universität für Eisenbahnwesen, Omsk, Russland; Technische Universität Budapest, Ungarn; Technische Universität Vilnius, Litauen; Tongji University Shanghai, School of Economics and Management, China; University of Cergy-Pontoise, Frankreich; ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Schweiz; Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China.

Road vehicle lab, railway engineering labs, transport and environment lab, lab for mechatronics and material flow, RFID lab, SAP lab and other IT clusters; Cooperation with the Railway Operations department of Gotha Technical College; Several vehicles for measurement and test purposes, including bivalent and battery-electric drive; Modern premises and equipment. Use of various software solutions for planning and simulation, e.g. traffic model Thuringia, PTV Vissim, IPG CarMaker, railway operations simulation.

Specific module "Entrepreneurship Management" in the Master's degree course in Material Flow and Logistics; Advice from the Start-up Service of the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt; "Learning lab for ideas & future plans" together with the University of Erfurt.

The subject area of Traffic and Transportation works closely with the subject areas of Economics, Applied Computer Science and Town and Country Planning. Teaching is also provided by the language centre and the Mathematical Science Centre. Numerous projects in the field of Applied Research, as well as project and final theses in companies permit contact to working practice. The Railways branch of study was developed in cooperation with DB Netz AG and Gotha Technical College and is rare in Germany.