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CHE University Ranking

Physics, Department

Fakultät Physik

Technische Universität Dresden

Fakultät Physik
Haeckelstr. 3
D-01069 Dresden
Telephone: +49 351 46333378
https://tu-dresden.de
TU Dresden
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Degree courses with details

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,030

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

180

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

13/16 points

International orientation

Share of anglophone research groups

90.0%

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

  • Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 14.7%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 17.6%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 37.7%
  • Particle Physics: 10.3%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 0%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 19.6%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
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Research orientation

Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation
Support for stays abroad
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Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

47

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Intensive teaching evaluation (questionnaires and personal evaluation discussions between student delegation and lecturers); OPAL platform for online teaching, including forum for discussion of content; In the "learning room", student tutors help students review the lecture material, solve exercises and prepare for examinations; Option to participate in teaching as a student assistant (internship support).

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Cross-topic lectures and tutorials in experimental and theoretical physics; Courses are taught in English; examinations/final thesis and, where applicable, exercises can also be completed in German; Very large number of minor electives available; OPAL platform for online teaching, including forum for discussion of content; Ability to gain teaching experience as an teaching assistant (internship/practice support).

Special features regarding the international orientation

English-language Master's degree in Physics with a choice of examination language by students; English-language, interdisciplinary degree course in "Organic and Molecular Electronics"; very international composition of work groups in university and non-university research. Students are involved in international research cooperations of the work groups.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

University of Turku, Finnland; NTNU Trondheim, Norwegen; Aix Marseille University, Frankreich; Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Frankreich; Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spanien; Universität de Valencia, Spanien; Loughborough University, UK; Università degli Studi di Parma, Italien; Universidade de Lisboa, Lissabon, Portugal; Universität Zürich, Schweiz

Special features regarding the equipment

Access to large-scale research equipment also on site: High-field magnet lab HLD and electron accelerator ELBE at the Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf, and the "Felsenkeller-Labor" underground accelerator; Joint technology platform of TU Dresden and non-university institutions within the "DRESDEN-concept" association; Access to TU Dresden high-performance computers.

Special features regarding research activities

Research in solid state, nuclear and particle physics, biophysics (experiment and theory), theory of complex quantum systems and didactics; close links with the Dresden Leibniz, Max-Planck, Helmholtz and Fraunhofer institutes as well as with industry; globally unique density of fundamental (e.g. correlated electron systems) and applied (e.g. organic light-emitting diode/solar cells) research in solid state physics and materials science, Collaborative Research Centre 1143, Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat and Physics of Life; participation in the (ATLAS experiment at CERN; laboratory for nuclear astrophysics.

Further information on research activities

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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