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Chemistry, Department

Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie
Department Chemie
Butenandtstraße 5 - 13
D-81377 München
https://www.lmu.de
LMU München
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

520

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

190

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

13/16 points

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Support in studies
subject-specific skills
methodological skills
interdisciplinary skills
Study organisation
Laboratory internships
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

45

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

pre-study work placement in the Bachelor’s degree course; Combined bachelor's degree course in chemistry and biochemistry with initial specialisation opportunities in the fifth and sixth semesters; Wide range of bachelor's degree course options; Exercise groups in the initial semesters.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

A wide range of options with individual and innovative focuses, as well as research-related internships.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Advice and support in the planning of stays abroad for students and doctoral candidates, many international partner universities (Erasmus), financial support for completing master's internships or master's theses abroad from the university's own funds; Numerous research cooperations with international partners; (In some cases) English-language lectures in the Master's programmes.

Special features regarding the equipment

Central analysis with state-of-the-art large-scale equipment: Laser spectroscopy, and sector field, multiple and ion trap mass spectrometry, high and ultra-high field NMR (600, 700, 800 MHz), solid-state NMR, cryo and analytical transmission electron microscopy, dual-beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB), protein and structural analysis (X-ray crystallography), DNA analysis and high-performance computing. Reaxys and SciFinder databases, and Cambridge Structural Database, and many more.

Special features regarding research activities

Research focuses: Chemical Synthesis and Characterisation, Nanosciences, Material Sciences, Life Sciences, Structural Chemistry, Molecular Systems Research, Systems Biology, Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Origins of Life, Energy Research; Cluster of Excellence E-conversion; Collaborative Research Centres1309, 237; as well as other sub-projects in other Collaborative Research Centres; Application-oriented: several spin-offs, e.g. NanoScape, LambdaChem and BaseClick.

Other special features

The high standard of research at LMU Chemistry is further demonstrated by the following: 4 Leibniz prize winners among the professors; Currently 2 ERC Advanced Grants, 4 ERC Starting Grants and 2 Max Planck Fellows.

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

http://cup.uni-muenchen.de/de/studiengaenge/

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Acronyms

(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

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Last Update 2024: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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