Compulsory study information days and self-assessments for study orientation; Eight-semester bachelor's degree programme to facilitate the transition from secondary school to higher education; Small groups in internships and tutorials; Mentoring programme for close and long-term support of students in special academic situations; Students are involved in research groups early on, e.g. as an academic assistant

English-language Master's degree course; High proportion of international students; Broad exchange programme with European and non-European partner universities; Wide range of theses both in physical research and in application-related and interdisciplinary topics; Interdisciplinary master's degree specialisations in cooperation with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Nanoelectronics, Quantum Technology)

English-language Master's degree course; High proportion of international students; Several international lecturers; wide-ranging exchange programme with European and non-European partner universities; virtual mobility through joint courses with partner universities (DAAD-funded); 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 50 percent.

Aalto University, Helsinki, Finnland; Grenoble INP – Institute of Engineering, Grenoble, Frankreich; University of Surrey, Guildford, Großbritannien; Università degli studi di Parma, Parma, Italien; Technische Universeit Delft, Delft, Niederlande; Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spanien; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Schweiz; Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Schweden; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norwegen; Gdańsk University of Technology, Danzig, Polen

Grid computer cluster with 5350 CPUs and 4 petabytes of hard disk space; Central Electron Microscopy Laboratory; Central Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology (ZMNT) in collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering; Access to equipment at the Research Centre Jülich (supercomputers, Helmholtz Nano Facility (HNF), COSY accelerator); Access to facilities of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics CERN (Large Hadron Collider (LHC), test beams, workshops)

International research projects and collaborations (CERN etc.); Close cooperation with the Jülich Research Centre within the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA), in particular within the scope of JARA-FIT and JARA-FAME.; Close cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology and AMO GmbH.; International and national collaborative projects such as EU flagship projects, BMBF research focus, DFG Research Training Groups, DFG Collaborative Research Centres.; ML4Q Cluster of Excellence together with the universities of Cologne and Bonn and the Jülich Research Centre.

Five teaching staff for special tasks support the full-time professors in teaching. The Department of Physics has committed to continuously increasing the number of female students, graduates, teachers and professors.