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CHE University Ranking

Geoscience, Department

Fakultät Chemie und Geowissenschaften

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Fakultät Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Im Neuenheimer Feld 234-236
D-69120 Heidelberg
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de
Uni Heidelberg
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

190

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: 34%
  • Environmental and Applied Geosciences: 27.4%
  • Resource Geology: 0%
  • Mineralogy, Geomaterial Research: 25.5%
  • Paleontology, Earth and Climate History: 10.4%
  • Geophysics: 2.8%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

14/16 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

4.9

Citations per publication

6

Third party funds per academic

174,800 €

Doctorates per professor

0.7

Research reputation

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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

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Rooms
Library

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IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

21

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Specialisations in Geology/Paleontology, Mineralogy and Environmental Geochemistry in the BSc in Geosciences; High proportion of practice-oriented excursions and laboratory exercises.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

High proportion of practice-oriented excursions and laboratory exercises; Highly flexible thanks to the large proportion of elective compulsory modules in the MSc degree programme.; Focus on isotope analysis (SIMS large-scale instrument).

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Frankreich; Universidad de Oviedo, Spanien; University of Patras, Griechenland; Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italien; Kobenhavns Universitet, Kopenhagen, Daenemark; Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warschau, Polen; Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Tschechien; Universita degli studi di Milano; Mailand, Italien; Université de Geneve, Genf, Schweiz; Sorbonne Université, Paris, Frankreich; Pantheon-Assas Université, Paris, Frankreich

Special features regarding the equipment

High-resolution ion probe (DFG Core Facility); other labs Microprobe, multiple mass spectrometers (noble gas mass spectrometry, isotope geochemistry, organic geochemistry); Ultrapure laboratories, X-ray laboratory; Scanning electron microscope; Water laboratory (inorganic); Ultrapure analysis (ICP-MS), organic analysis (GCs,FCs, etc.), in-situ gas analysis (Picarro); sampling equipment: Pumps, hand drills, hammer drills, Rumohr plumb bob, inflatable boat etc.; microscope equipment. precision mechanical workshop; Grinding and preparation laboratories; Stone workshops; Museum; Library; Computer pools; institute vehicle

Special features regarding research activities

Collaborative projects in international programmes IODP, ICDP; high-resolution ion probe (DFG Core Facility). Networking with the Heidelberg Centre for the Environment and the Heidelberg Initiative for the Origins of Life.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Website of the Student Council

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