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CHE University Ranking

Physics, Department

Fakultät für Physik

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,020

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

270

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

12/16 points

International orientation

Share of anglophone research groups

100.0%

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

  • Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 6.1%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 5.6%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 22.2%
  • Particle Physics: 7.8%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 13.9%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 44.4%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

49

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Research-oriented learning (involvement of the Research Campus); Competent student advice and counselling from the beginning of their studies throughout the entire degree programme until entry into the profession; Latest facilities; good support ratio; At 25%, the proportion of female professors is pleasingly high for a physics faculty; Dedicated student council.; Strong involvement of students in the design of degree courses and conditions; Göttingen covers almost the entire range of topics related to physic.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Research-oriented learning (involvement of the Research Campus); Competent student advice and counselling from the beginning of their studies throughout the entire degree programme until entry into the profession; Latest facilities; good support ratio; At 25%, the proportion of female professors is pleasingly high for a physics faculty; Dedicated student council.; Strong involvement of students in the design of degree courses and conditions; Göttingen covers almost the entire range of topics related to physics.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Master's programme taught in English; good international reputation; high proportion of students who complete at least one semester abroad; Erasmus Mundus Programme in Astrophysics (Astromundus); funding for international excursions; international lecturers. Students are involved in international research cooperations of the work groups.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Durham University,Vereinigtes Königreich; Universiteit Gent, Belgien; National University of Singapore, Singapur; University of Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich; Stockholms universitet, Schweden; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Niederlande; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spanien; Aarhus Universitet, Dänemark; Tallinna Tehnikaúlikoo, Estland; Mc Master University, Kanada

Special features regarding the equipment

State-of-the-art physics building, built in 2005; Wide range of state-of-the-art large-scale research equipment (U-TEM, E-TEM, focused-ion beam, electron beam lithography, ion accelerator; small-angle X-ray system; electron beam lithography; liquid Jet microfocus X-ray generator; pulsed-x-ray source with fs laser system; Clean room; TR-ARPES, STM/AFM, etc.); Participation in GeoGrid computer cluster; Cooperation/participation in the computer centre's GWDG. CIP cluster for students (about 80 computers); Modern, well-equipped, precision mechanics central workshop; Helium recovery facility for the building

Special features regarding research activities

Collaborative Research Centre "Atomic Scale Energy Conversion"; Participation in: Mathematics of Experiments (Collaborative Research Centre 1456), research area "Physics on the TeV Scale" with ATLAS at the LHC (CERN), BMBF Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience, "Multiscale Bioimaging" cluster of excellence; Astrophysics research at large telescopes HET and SALT, etc.; Cooperation with Göttingen MPIs "Dynamics & Self-Organisation", "Solar System Research" and "Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences". Cooperation with DESY in Hamburg.

Other special features

Historical physics collection (museum); Departmental library in the building; Study area for students; Astrophysics observation dome; Participation in XLAB-Göttingen.; Sustainability lecture cycle

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3811.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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