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CHE University Ranking

Physics, Department

Fachbereich 13: Physik

Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

890

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

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: 17.6%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 4.4%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 11%
  • Particle Physics: 39.6%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 6.6%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 20.9%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

42

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

There is a very broad range of compulsory elective courses, bundled in focus areas (including the Climate Physics and geophysics); A relatively large range of compulsory elective courses. Very research-oriented compulsory elective courses can already be chosen already in the Bachelor's degree programme. Minor subjects can be selected from a wide range of offerings, including all Humanities and Social Sciences courses. There is an early introduction to Theoretical Physics. There is extremely good cooperation with the departmental student organisation of the Department of Physics.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

There are no required modules in the Master's degree programme except for an extensive research and laboratory practical and two seminars. This allows students to specialise very freely in a research area of their choice through the very wide range of compulsory elective courses. Master's theses are often carried out as part of international joint projects, which usually includes a stay abroad. In addition to the focus areas already available in the Bachelor's degree programme, Computational Physics can be chosen with its own curriculum in the field of Computer Simulation.

Special features regarding the international orientation

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 30 percent.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Universitetet i Bergen, Norwegen; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spanien; Kobenhavns Universitet, Dänemark; Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Frankreich; Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italien; University of California, Berkeley, USA; Fudan University, Shanghai; UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN, STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG, UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA, Università degli studi di Firenze, Universitá degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Università degli studi di Trieste, Technische Universität Graz, Umea University, Selcuk University

Special features regarding the equipment

On-site accelerator facilities are used even early on in education and training.; Physics is involved with a high-performance computer (Centre for Scientific Computing).; Cryostats, development of detector facilities, cryo-electron microscopy, terahertz photonics, Coltrims, high magnetic field laboratory, molecular beam epitaxy, gamma spectroscopy.

Special features regarding research activities

The department is involved in many fields of both applied as well as the basic research. The professors and staff are involved in numerous research associations and cooperation projects. Examples include the joint projects TRR211, TRR288 ELASTO-Q-MAT, DFG Priority Programme SPP 2041, DFG Research Groups 2414 and 5249, Helmholtz Academy HFHF, BMBF ErUM-FSP T01 and T06, CRC 1319 ELCH as well as the ELEMENTS and SCALE excellence initiatives and CLiC. Many of these projects are carried out at large-scale research centres (CERN, GSI, FAIR, LNBL, DESY).

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/36079338/Grundst%C3%A4ndige_Studieng%C3%A4nge?show_all=true

Website of the Student Council

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