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CHE University Ranking

Physics, Department

Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Referat der Fachgruppe Physik/Astronomie
Wegelerstr. 10
D-53115 Bonn
https://www.uni-bonn.de
Uni Bonn
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,440

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

310

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/16 points

International orientation

Share of anglophone research groups

75.0%

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

  • Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 22.1%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 1.8%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 0%
  • Particle Physics: 39.8%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 31%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 5.3%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

54

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

In the Bachelor's course: comprehensive education in the fundamentals of experimental and theoretical physics, astronomy as a possible minor subject, separate degree course for the physics teaching qualification; Starting with the master's degree: joint graduate school with Cologne (BCGS), supported by the Excellence Initiative, research-related separate master's courses in physics, astrophysics and teaching qualification, partner of the International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

A joint graduate school with Cologne (BCGS), supported by the Excellence Initiative. Research-focused separate master's courses in physics, astrophysics and teaching qualification, partner of the International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Close cooperation with the Forschungszentrum Jülich, e.g. in the supervision of theses.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Close cooperation with international research institutions and universities, German-Chinese Collaborative Research Centre. Master's degree programmes taught exclusively in English. Targeted international recruitment of Master's students by the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School.; In the MSc of Astrophysics, the proportion of international students is well over 50% and in the MSc of Physics it is about 40%. 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 10 percent.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Trondheim, Norwegen; Universiteit van Amsterdam, Niederlande; National and Kapodistrian University Athens, Griechenland; Sorbonne Université Paris, Frankreich; Universidad de La Laguna Teneriffa, Spanien; Umea universitet, Schweden; Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal; Università degli Studi di Torino, Italien; Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel; California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, USA

Special features regarding the equipment

Electron accelerator ELSA 3.5 GeV; Silicon detector and chip lab; Isochron cyclotron, isotope separator; Laser Labs, Nano Lab, Technical Centre for Precision and Micromechanics; Excellent electronics/mechanics workshops, student labs; Radio telescope; High-performance computer clusters for research; Research and Technology Centre for Detector Physics.

Special features regarding research activities

Key areas in Particle Physics (High-Energy and Hadron Physics) / Quantum Optics / Photonics / Condensed Matter and Astrophysics / Cosmology / Radio Astronomy; experiments with accelerators on site, experiments at CERN; Strong theory groups in all three areas, partly in association with Mathematics (bctp - Bethe Centre for Theoretical Physics); Close cooperation with the MPI for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and the Jülich Research Centre.

Other special features

Numerous, partly international cooperations, such as with CERN (European Centre for Particle Physics), DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron), MAMI Mainz, COSY Research Centre Jülich, KEK (Japan), Jefferson Lab (USA); EU projects, participation in DFG Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs/TRs) and research groups as well as BMBF priority programmes in Particle Physics and Astrophysics; International observatories NANTEN2, CCAT, EUCLID, eROSITA. Ex-Cluster ML4Q (Matter and Light for Quantum Computing) with the Universities of Cologne, Aachen and Jülich. The University of Bonn is a university of excellence.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

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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