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CHE University Ranking

Biology / Bioscience, Department

Fakultät für Biologie

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,670

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

320

Teaching in core subjects

  • General Biology/Evolution, Genetic: 27.6%
  • Biochemistry/Biophysics/Physiology; Cell- & Developmental Biology: 34.5%
  • Zoology: 13.8%
  • Botany/Plant Science: 8%
  • Microbiology: 6.9%
  • Ecology: 9.2%

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
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

63

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Solid natural sciences principles, based on these, specialisation in a special field of Biosciences; Very wide range of course options; Interdisciplinary with Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics; State-of-the-art teaching tools (e.g. clicker systems with direct mapping of response frequencies), numerous online formats, Zoom, Jitsi, Case Train, inverted classroom, etc.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Very high number of partner universities, intensive support for international mobility starting in the fifth semester, English-speaking Master's programmes with strong ties between with partner universities in research & teaching.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Umea, Salamanca, Sevilla, Montpellier, Prag, Lissabon, Oslo, Oulu, Barcelona, Ghent, Oxford

Special features regarding research activities

Focuses in the life sciences, in particular in bioinformatics, biochemistry, biomedicine, biophysics, biotechnology, biomaterials, botany, developmental biology, genetics, high-end microscopy, infection biology, metabolomics, microbiology, neurobiology, parasitology, plant physiology, plant ecology, pharmaceutical biology, physiology, RNA biology, single cell sequencing, stem cell biology, sociobiology, structural biology, system immunology, animal ecology, tissue engineering, tropical biology, tumour biology, behavioural physiology, forest ecology, cell biology and zoology.

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

Thousand Euro

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