The Geosciences of the Universität Bayreuth offer both research and practice-based teaching in four complementary degree courses (BSc and MSc Geo-Ecology, MSc Global Change Ecology, MSc Experimental Geosciences). These are oriented in an inter-disciplinary way and deal with both regional and global environmental systems.

The Geosciences of the Universität Bayreuth offer both research and practice-based teaching in four complementary degree courses (BSc and MSc Geo-Ecology, MSc Global Change Ecology, MSc Experimental Geosciences). These are oriented in an inter-disciplinary way and deal with both regional and global environmental systems.

Through explicitly international degree programmes taught exclusively in English, there is a wide range of courses taught in English. This also draws many international students to Bayreuth. English-language specialist library and work placements abroad promote the international focus of the university.

Université Côte d’Azur, Frankreich; Háskóli Íslands University, Island; Università degli Studi di Bologna 'Alma Mater Studiorum', Italien; Universiteit van Amsterdam, Niederlande; Umeå universitet, Schweden; Universitatea din Bucuresti, Rumänien; Stockholms universitet, Schweden; Universidad de Granada, Spanien

The BayCEER has equipment for the recording of climate data (measuring pillars), for chemical analysis, a laboratory for isotope biogeochemistry, as well as open land for experimental biodiversity research. The MSc Experimental Geosciences has at its disposal the full range of scientific equipment for high-pressure synthesis and analysis.

BayCEER is a research institution of the Universität Bayreuth which combines the activities in the fields of Environmental Sciences and Ecology. Research fields are Global Change: Consequences, prognoses and prevention; Biodiversity: Dissemination, Function and Conservation; Ecosystems: Function and Performance; Environmental and Nature Conservation. The Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics carries out experimental high-temperature/high-pressure research in the fields of Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry and Geophysics.

Since 2021, the University of Bayreuth has had a sustainability strategy with goals including resource conservation and energy efficiency. Green Campus is the university's sustainability office, which bundles activities related to sustainability.