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CHE University Ranking

Biology / Bioscience, Department

Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Universität Greifswald

Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fachrichtung Biologie und Institut für Biochemie
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn-Straße 15 a
D-17487 Greifswald
https://www.uni-greifswald.de
Uni Greifswald
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,290

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

350

Teaching in core subjects

  • General Biology/Evolution, Genetic: 13.5%
  • Biochemistry/Biophysics/Physiology; Cell- & Developmental Biology: 23.5%
  • Zoology: 16.8%
  • Botany/Plant Science: 17.5%
  • Microbiology: 15.5%
  • Ecology: 13.2%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/16 points

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Courses offered
subject-specific skills
methodological skills
interdisciplinary skills
Study organisation
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Laboratory internships
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Research orientation

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

123

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Full range of subjects (botany, zoology, genetics, microbiology, ecology) with interdisciplinary specialisations of research-oriented teaching (functional genome research, infection biology, biological responses to novel and changing environments).

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Full range of subjects (botany, zoology, genetics, microbiology, ecology) with interdisciplinary specialisations of research-oriented teaching (functional genome research, infection biology, biological responses to novel and changing environments).

Special features regarding the international orientation

Actively seeking to identify interesting ERASMUS partners, promotion of student exchange in the ERASMUS Plus programme; Invitation of international assistant professors to summer schools in the graduate colleges who are accessible to advanced students.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Lunds universitet, Lund, Schweden; Umeå universitet, Umeå, Schweden; Stockholms universitet, Stockholm, Schweden; Helsingin Yliopisto, Helsinki, Finnland; Høgskolen i Innlandet (Hedmark), Norwegen; Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, Norwegen; Masarykova Univerzita v Brne, Brno, Tschechien; Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italien; Česká Zemědělská Univerzita v Praze, Prag, Tschechien; Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal; University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Kanada; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasilien

Special features regarding the equipment

Shared use of large-scale equipment in technology platforms or core units (e.g. proteomics and imaging platforms)

Special features regarding research activities

Research is conducted in four main areas: interactions and evolution of organisms, climate change / transformation and its consequences, sustainability and environmental management, humans and microorganisms; several DFG postgraduate schools in the last 5 years; close networking in research and teaching with non-university research institutions in Greifswald (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Helmholtz Institute for One Health).

Other special features

Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Diversity, Anti-Racism Campaigns, Training of Student Councils on Sexual Discrimination

Information on access restrictions

https://www.uni-greifswald.de/studium/vor-dem-studium/bewerbung-in-nc-studienfaecher/dosv/

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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