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CHE University Ranking

Geoscience, Department

Fakultät für Georessourcen und Materialtechnik

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Fakultät für Georessourcen und Materialtechnik
Lochnerstr. 4-20
D-52056 Aachen
https://www.rwth-aachen.de
RWTH Aachen
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

800

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

320

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

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Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

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Teaching in core subjects

  • Geology: 27.4%
  • Environmental and Applied Geosciences: 30.6%
  • Resource Geology: 0%
  • Mineralogy, Geomaterial Research: 24.2%
  • Paleontology, Earth and Climate History: 8.1%
  • Geophysics: 9.7%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

13/16 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

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Master theses in cooperation with work environment

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Research

Publications per academic

4.3

Citations per publication

5.9

Third party funds per academic

243,400 €

Doctorates per professor

1.9

Research reputation

42.2%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Laboratory internships
Excursions
Research orientation

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

34

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding the international orientation

Free German and English courses for international and exchange students; Specialisation-specific courses in the Master's segment taught in English; Student buddy programme; Welcome field trips for international students; Mobility modules for the recognition of CPs earned in the course of semesters abroad; Information events on semesters abroad; Erasmus counselling

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norwegen; Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italien; Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Indien; Universitat de Barcelona, Spanien; Université Grenoble Alpes, Frankreich; University of Arizona, USA; Univerzita Karlova v Prag, Tschechien; Universidade de São Paulo, Brasilien; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; Universidad de Granada, Spanien

Special features regarding the equipment

Currently the only device in Germany for "Quantitative Evaluation of Minerals by Scanning Electron Microscopy" (QEMSCAN®); Cryo-electron microscope for fluid specimens up to temperatures of -150°C; Scientific operation of neutron single-crystal diffractometers HEiDi and POLI at the Research Neutron Source FRM II in Munich; Environmental Chemistry and Petrophysical laboratories; High-resolution LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) for geoscience surveying; Extensive field measuring equipment in all disciplines and PC laboratories with modern simulation tools.

Special features regarding research activities

Profile building in the field of "Geo resources"; Extensive expertise in the field of modelling and simulation, combined with engineering disciplines; One of the strongest research university groupings in Western Europe in geoscience-related aspects of energy research; Strong emphasis on natural gas and oil, coal and geothermal energy as well as CO2 storage; Research on the usage of subterranean space and geohazards with strong links to the engineering sciences.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

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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