Geography, Department
Chemisch-Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Chemisch-Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für Geographie
Löbdergraben 32
D-07743 Jena
https://www.uni-jena.de
Uni Jena
Department on the internet
Institut für Geographie
Löbdergraben 32
D-07743 Jena
https://www.uni-jena.de
Uni Jena
Department on the internet
Degree courses with details
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Basic information
- Total number of students at the department
430
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
100
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners
no data
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's
no data
Support during the study entry phase
- Total score for support in the study entry phase
12/16 points
Job market- and career-orientation
- Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
no data
- Master theses in cooperation with work environment
no data
Research
- Publications per academic
0.5
- Third party funds per academic
no data
- Doctorates per professor
0.4
- 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
- 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
27
Further information provided by the department
Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme
Optimal focus on your individual interests thanks to early specialisation in the BSc (Physical Geography & Soil Science,; Economy & Space,; Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing) and extensive context area (related disciplines). Then build on your BSc with a research-oriented MSc in Geography (with a focus on Climate and Environmental Change or Migration, Demographic Change and Regional Development) or MSc in Geoinformatics, and get a taste of everyday geographic work with a potential employer of your choice in a career-oriented internship (9 weeks).
Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes
Students in the Master's degree programme in Geography can focus on Human Geography with an orientation toward Migration, Demographic Change & Regional Development or on a Physical Geography with an orientation toward Climate and Environmental Change. Students can choose up to 35 credit points from interdisciplinary modules to pursue an individual specialisation. You can experience everyday working life with a potential employer in a career-oriented internship (6 weeks).
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Radboud University Nijmegen, Niederlande; Lund University, Schweden; Universität Zürich, Schweiz; Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Türkei; University of Waterloo, Kanada; via EC2U: Universidad de Salamanca, Spanien; Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal; Université de Poitiers, Frankreich; Universitatea din Iasi, Rumänien; Universita degli studi di Pavia, Italien; Universität Turku, Finnland
Special features regarding the equipment
Physical Geography / Soil Science: Modern laboratory with C, N, S elementary & TOC/TN analyser, GC, irMS (isotope analysis), ICP-OES, ion chromatograph, laser-particle scanner, X-ray diffractometer, pollen analysis; field equipment including hydroacoustics, seismics, drilling platform. Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics: Two computer pools, differential GPS, Soil Physics lab (pF/WC), Octocopter and multi spectrometer, stereo camera, ASD field spectrometer and laboratory, RIEGL Laser Scanner, LAI analyser. Software: eCognition, ENVI/IDL, ERDAS, ArcGIS and PCI Geomatica, Gamma, SARScape; Computing cluster, human geography: PC room, media lab,
Special features regarding research activities
Due to numerous projects (cf. third-party funded projects) and basic and applied research, final theses can be offered that have project and practical relevance and financing. In the context of projects abroad, stays for field and laboratory work at international universities and research institutes are possible.
Other special features
FSU Green Office; Inclusion Officer; Diversity Office
Further information on research activities
Further information about study entry phase
Information on access restrictions
https://www.uni-jena.de/studienangebot
Website of the Student Council
online-application
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Acronyms
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(F) = Facts
(P) = Professors' judgements
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Last Update 2024: Data collected by the
CHE Center for Higher Education
