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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,020

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

210

Teaching in core subjects

  • General Biology/Evolution, Genetic: 13%
  • Biochemistry/Biophysics/Physiology; Cell- & Developmental Biology: 24%
  • Zoology: 15.3%
  • Botany/Plant Science: 16%
  • Microbiology: 8.4%
  • Ecology: 23.3%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

12/16 points

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
subject-specific skills
methodological skills
interdisciplinary skills
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Laboratory internships
Excursions
Research orientation

Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation
Support for stays abroad

Not specified
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

29

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Wide range of subjects, organised into 10 departments which benefit all degree courses; Students have a lot of freedom to choose modules in all degree courses, with most of those to be chosen being compulsory elective modules; Integration of professional practitioners in teaching (delegated teachers, government authority representatives, employees from industrial companies); High degree of practical elements in all degree courses; Wide range of excursions in optional required modules; Integration in the research activities of the work groups and individual supervision.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Wide range of subjects, organised into 10 departments which benefit all degree courses; Students have a lot of freedom to choose modules in all degree courses, with most of those to be chosen being compulsory elective modules; Integration of professional practitioners in teaching (delegated teachers, government authority representatives, employees from industrial companies); High degree of practical elements in all degree courses; Wide range of excursions in optional required modules; Integration in the research activities of the work groups and individual supervision.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Agreement with international universities in the context of Erasmus; Uncomplicated recognition process that is not based on content but on qualification goals.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Universität Bern, Schweiz; University of Helsinki, Finnland; Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkei; Universidad Navarra, Spanien; Université Paris Sud, Frankreich; Universitat València, Spanien

Special features regarding research activities

Close cooperation in research and teaching with the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Synmikro – Centre for Synthetic Microbiology.

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Acronyms

(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

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Value in points

Euro

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