High importance placed on personal interaction, attendance and accessibility of teaching staff as well as the quality of supervision; active and committed departmental student body, in close contact with lead faculty; integration of service learning in the application subjects.

The entire spectrum of psychology is represented, and international aspects are dealt with in some subject areas. In research, international partnerships are ubiquitous, which is reflected in research-based teaching (e.g. through contacts between students and visiting researcher).

The following are available as service units: Media centre (e.g. on working with video analysis), E-Learning Landau, methodology centre (e.g. for putting course-relevant methodology into practice, teaching evaluation with mobile devices, etc.).

In addition to active basic research, there are strong interdisciplinary- and supraregionally focused research projects which involve unusual combinations of disciplines:

Personalised support for study organisation/timetable planning also applies, for example, to students with children, students with family members in need of nursing assistance, students with parallel professional employment, et al.