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Psychology, Department

Fakultät HW - Fakultät für Emprische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft

Universität des Saarlandes

Fakultät HW - Fakultät für Emprische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Fachrichtung Psychologie
Campus A1 3 und A2 4
D-66123 Saarbrücken
Telephone: +49 681 302-3123
https://www.uni-saarland.de
Uni des Saarlandes/Saarbrücken
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

820

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

350

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

12/14 points

Research

Publications per academic

2

Citations per publication

3.5

Third party funds per academic

48,100 €

Doctorates per professor

0.7

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Research orientation
Offers for career orientation
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

70

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Digital teaching elements

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Not specified
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies

no destict rank group could be assigned

Not specified
Research orientation
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

49

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Extensive training in methodology and diagnostics; Wide range of clinical course contents (Psychotherapy and Neuropsychology); Range of different options in different key areas in applied and basic subjects in the Master's degree course; Dedicated teaching staff; intensive supervision of qualification work; Creative lecture forms.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Erasmus+ Coordination Office; generally: Saarland University’s internationalisation strategy; Offers by the Welcome Center/International Office for international first-year students; ‘University of the Greater Region’ university network to increase student mobility

Special features regarding the equipment

Several EEG laboratories; Eye-tracking laboratory; Observation laboratory for small children; Baby laboratory; Access to the driving simulator laboratory; Access to the fMRI research scanner in the Homburg university clinic; generally: Use of Office 365 / Microsoft teams throughout the university to support online / hybrid instruction; In addition, Moodle platform as an information- and document-management system to accompany the degree programme; Accompanying offers for teaching staff and students from the specialist team on digitalisation; Subject-related subpage for psychology in the database information system (DBIS) of Saarland. University and State Library

Special features regarding research activities

Interdisciplinary Twin family panel (TwinLife) and both molecular and epigen. subprojects:; of multiple international projects on Entrepreneurship-Psy. and at the interface between Computer Science and Psychology.; Studies on the neurocog. principles of learning, memory and cogn. control; Development of neurocog. training and intervention prog. for different age groups and clinical samples; Participation in a DFG SFB on the connection between information density and ling. encoding; Longitudinal studies, exp. laboratory studies and clinical Studies on understanding/therapy of stress-associated disorders.

Support for founders

All psychology students are sensitized in at least one course to found a start-up later on (e.g. as a resident therapist or as an organisational consultant). In addition, Entrepreneurship Psychology is regularly the subject of courses, and students can also write their Bachelor’s or Master’s theses as part of Entrepreneurship Psychology projects that the Chair of Labour & Organisational Psychology has obtained.; generally: Offers by the ‘Gründer-Campus Saar’ (organised by the Contact Office for Knowledge and Technology Transfer [KWT] at Saarland University)

Other special features

Two university outpatient clinics (psychotherapeutic university outpatient ward and neuropsychological teaching and research outpatient ward) and a continuing education institute for psychotherapy in Saarbrücken (WiPS). Expertise office

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

online-application

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Last Update 2022: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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