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Computer Science, Department

Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften

Universität Hamburg

Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften
Fachbereich Informatik
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30
D-20527 Hamburg
https://www.uni-hamburg.de
Uni Hamburg
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

2,080

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

620

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

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Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

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Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/16 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

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Master theses in cooperation with work environment

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Research

Publications per academic

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Not specified
Third party funds per academic

65,100 €

Doctorates per professor

0.9

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

72

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

9–21 ECTS credit points (depending on the degree course) as an elective for interest-led, interdisciplinary competence acquisition, including an interdisciplinary lecture series on current social issues (Taming the Machines, Climate Crisis, Peace Building, etc.); Creative laboratory "BASE.camp" enables students to work on largely independent research projects in the fields of Big Data, AI and Security even before the bachelor thesis; Lectures are recorded and made available to the pubic through the "lecture2go".

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

6–24 ECTS credit points (depending on the degree course) as an elective for interest-led, interdisciplinary competence acquisition, including interdisciplinary lecture series on current social issues (Taming the Machines, Climate Crisis, Peace Building, etc.); Hamburg Teaching Award for Professor Tilo Böhmann (ITMC) 2021; Creative laboratory "BASE.camp" enables students to work on largely independent research projects in the fields of Big Data and AI and Security regardless of the subject of the (later) master's thesis; Lectures are recorded and made available to the pubic through the "lecture2go".

Special features regarding the international orientation

In addition to "classic" semesters abroad via an exchange programme at the departmental or university level, there are also various opportunities for internationalisation from Hamburg: Virtual mobility (9 partner universities) with reciprocal digital course attendance, PIASTA, the chance to obtain a certificate of intercultural competence, various foreign language courses (via free electives). DFG-funded German-Chinese transregional project "Cross Modal Learning" (CML) with currently about 50 doctoral students, annual summer school, and over 300 publications.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasilien; University of Leeds, Leeds, Vereinigtes Königreich; Universitiy of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, Südafrika; Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Seoul National University, Seoul, Südkorea; Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australien

Special features regarding the equipment

140 computer workstations in the PC/Mac pool and 63 laptops and MacBooks for loan, access to scanners/3D printers/smartboards for students; XR lab (human-computer interaction) with various VR/AR hardware; Hardware for high-performance computing (Scientific Computing, affiliated with the German Climate Computing Centre); RoboCup Team ("Hamburg Bit Bots"); E-book databases including Springer e-books, ProQuest Ebook Central, MIT Press Computing & Engineering e-Books Library; Journal databases including ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, GI Digital Library, AIS eLibrary, Eurographics Digital Library

Special features regarding research activities

The department has 26 chairs and about 230 employees who are divided into the three main areas of Human-Centred Computing (HCC) and Complex Systems Engineering (CSE) Computing in Science (CIS). Various ongoing research projects with national and international partners. The DFG-funded German-Chinese transregional project "Cross Modal Learning" (CML) organises an annual summer school, see "Internationalisation".

Other special features

"Mikropolis" platform for the promotion and design of digital, sustainable transformation, including 47 student-produced videos to date. Equal participation is the aim of the MIN faculty, including the Equality Plan, the MIN faculty's mission statement on respectful interaction, the "Diversity Days" event series, the "Anna Logica" programme, women's career day, the "Frauen Inform" network, the women's STEM award, the UHH family office MIN Sustainability Certificate "Contributions of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences to the Transformation into a Sustainable Future".

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

https://www.uni-hamburg.de/campuscenter/bewerbung/informationen-nc.html

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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