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CHE University Ranking

Geoscience, Department

Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Geowissenschaften und Informatik
Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie
Von-Seckendorff-Platz 3 - 4
D-06120 Halle (Saale)
https://www.uni-halle.de
Uni Halle-Wittenberg
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

160

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

30

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: 35%
  • Environmental and Applied Geosciences: 25%
  • Resource Geology: 5%
  • Mineralogy, Geomaterial Research: 25%
  • Paleontology, Earth and Climate History: 5%
  • Geophysics: 5%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/16 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

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Citations per publication

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Third party funds per academic

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Doctorates per professor

0.7

Research reputation

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Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support

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Support in studies

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Courses offered

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Study organisation

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Exam organisation

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Digital teaching elements

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Laboratory internships

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Excursions

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Research orientation

Introduction to scientific work

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Offers for career orientation

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Practical orientation in teaching

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Support for stays abroad

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Rooms

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Library

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IT-infrastructure

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Overall study situation

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Return rate of the questionnaires

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Selected rocks are exhibited in the Institute's Geological Garden. Cooperation with Belem, Brazil.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Cooperation with Belem, Brazil

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Sogndal, Norwegen; St. Denis, Frankreich; Aarhus, Dänemark; Lissabon, Portugal; Valencia, Spanien; Nijmegen, Niederlande; Mailand, Italien; Debrecen, Ungarn

Special features regarding the equipment

SEM; Cryo-SEM ;Niton-XLT 3; TerraSpec; FI microscope; CL microscope; photo microscope; 5MN rock testing machine quality class 1 with triaxial cell up to 70 Mpa; triaxial cell with CO2 pore fluid feeding; ultra-clean room and single particle preparation; powder diffractometer PANalytical; SMART Apex single-crystal diffractometer; GADDS; wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) Bruker AXS; Thermogravimetry (TG); Differential thermal analysis (DSC); thermal conduction and solution calorimeter; high-performance workstations; ion chromatography; HPLC; GC; IR spectrometer; DTA; ICP-OES; laser spectrometry.

Special features regarding research activities

Research in cooperation with major research institutions (e.g. GEOMAR, BGR, LIAG, GFZ, GFZ, IAMO), LAGB, the Environmental Agency of the City of Halle (Saale) and other geological services and industrial companies, depending on the specialist focus of the professorships (e.g. gas storage, repositories, geothermal energy, cement optimisation, refractory ceramics, rare earth resources, copper shale, geo-archaeology, groundwater modelling of opencast mine pits, 3D underground modelling).

Other special features

Practice-oriented, interdisciplinary training with high proportion of work in the field and in the laboratory.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

https://studienangebot.uni-halle.de/

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Acronyms

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(P) = Professors' judgements

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