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CHE University Ranking

Physics, Department

Fakultät für Mathematik, Physik und Informatik

Universität Bayreuth

Fakultät für Mathematik, Physik und Informatik
Physikalisches Institut
Universitätsstraße 30
D-95447 Bayreuth
https://www.uni-bayreuth.de
Uni Bayreuth
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

330

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

70

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

14/16 points

International orientation

Share of anglophone research groups

60.0%

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

  • Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 18.9%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 13.5%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 16.2%
  • Particle Physics: 0%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 0%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 51.4%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Laboratory internships
Research orientation

Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

37

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Digital teaching elements

Not specified
Practical orientation in teaching

Not specified
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation
Support for stays abroad

Not specified
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

16

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

study centre (every afternoon), particularly for supporting first-semester students and for preparing for examinations; Innovative teaching methods, e.g. inverted classroom; Video summaries of important experiments; Numerous earning opportunities as a research or teaching assistant; Clearly defined, mostly interdisciplinary focus areas: physics & philosophy, environmental physics, general physics, biophysics, technical physics.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Flexible master's degree programme, combination options with adjacent subjects, strong research focus, numerous earning opportunities as a research or teaching assistant

Special features regarding the international orientation

Individual guidance for planned study abroad ; Costs of stays abroad assumed by the ENB Biological Physics; Reliable and fast recognition of credits earned abroad. Students are involved in international research cooperations of the work groups, the proportion of students of a class who take advantage of this option for exchange is about 20 percent.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Swinburne University, Australien; City University of Hong Kong, China; Université Paris Cité, Frankreich; Università degli Studi Tor Vergata, Rom, Italien; University of Regina, Kanada; Universiteit Leiden, Niederlande; Stockholms Universitet, Schweden; Mondragon University, Spanien; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA; University of Birmingham, UK

Special features regarding the equipment

University of Bayreuth campus: The entire physics department, all lecture halls, canteen, library, university sports, etc. on the same campus; Research-based and therefore always topical practical experiments; Powerful computer pools and CIP cluster; Numerous free e-books; Easy use of large-scale research equipment for advanced students thanks to a university-wide KeyLAB infrastructure (including AFM, SEM, spectroscopy, computer clusters).

Special features regarding research activities

Research focuses: Biophysics, nano-optics and nanostructures, computational physics, quantum technology, atomic and molecular physics, complex systems. Inter-disciplinary networking: Biology, geosciences, materials sciences, chemistry, energy and fusion research, computer sciences.

Other special features

Numerous earning opportunities as student assistants in research & teaching; The Department of Physics supports the Green Campus sustainability initiative.; Close contact between lecturers and students; Very active departmental student body; Certified as a family-friendly university, which includes, for example, on-campus childcare facilities (especially for students); Student network

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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