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CHE University Ranking

Physics, Department

Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik
Appelstraße 2
D-30167 Hannover
https://www.uni-hannover.de
Uni Hannover
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,070

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

200

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

80.0%

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

  • Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 46%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 7.3%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 6.6%
  • Particle Physics: 8%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 24.1%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 8%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Introduction to scientific work

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Support for stays abroad

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Return rate of the questionnaires

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Wide range of compulsory elective offerings in the Master's degree course. Research-intensive Master's degree course (60 credit points).

Special features regarding the international orientation

The MA in Physics is offered in English and in German. There are now a wide range of support structures and advisory services available for this. Students are involved in international research cooperations of the work groups.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Rom "La Sapienza", Italien; Genua, Italien; Lissabon, Portugal; Granada, Spanien; Valencia, Spanien; Turku, Finnland, Lyon Frankreich, Oslo, Norwegen; Riga, Lettland

Special features regarding research activities

Home of two clusters of excellence for quantum optics and phontonics. Participation in another interdisciplinary hearing process. We have close links with the Max Planck Society for Gravitational Wave Research and Germany's national metrology institute, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in the field of quantum optics.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

online-application

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Acronyms

(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

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Euro

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