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Geoscience, Department

Fakultät für Bauingenieur-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Fakultät für Bauingenieur-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften
Kaiserstraße 12
D-76128 Karlsruhe
https://www.kit.edu
Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

740

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

260

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: 45.1%
  • Environmental and Applied Geosciences: 18.8%
  • Resource Geology: 9.7%
  • Mineralogy, Geomaterial Research: 19.4%
  • Paleontology, Earth and Climate History: 4.2%
  • 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

0.7

Citations per publication

7.1

Third party funds per academic

117,300 €

Doctorates per professor

0.7

Research reputation

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Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

78

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

BSc in Geodesy and Geoinformatics: A diverse range of teaching methods, from traditional to inverted classroom. BSc in Geo-ecology: Various teaching methods, field events, nature institute, integration of the State Museum of Natural History in teaching.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

MSc of Applied Geosciences: Through the compulsory elective modules, in the Master's course an in-depth specialisation in applied fields such as Geothermics, Hydrogeology, Engineering Geology and Applied Geochemistry is possible. There are two endowed professorships in the departments of Geothermal Energy and Technical Petrophysics. MSc: Geodesy and Geoinformatics, as well as Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics: A diverse range of teaching methods, from traditional to inverted classroom. MSc: Geo-ecology: Nature institute; involvement of the large-scale research area and practitioners from the professional fields.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Activities in the EUCOR and EPICUR networks (https://www.intl.kit.edu/13222.php). KIT and the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Strasbourg leads to both the academic degree in "MSc in Geodesy and Geoinformatics" and the title "Ingénieur INSA de Strasbourg, Spécialité Topographie". International student chapter: SGA Black Forest Alpine student chapter with extensive activities in the form of field and seminar event

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Universitetet i Tromsø, Tromsö, Norwegen; Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Norwegen; Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Frankreich; Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, Frankreich; Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Prag, Tschechien; Université de Lorrain, Nancy, Frankreich; Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (INSA) de Strasbourg, Frankreich; Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Univerzita Komenskeho v Bratislave, Slowakei; Univerza v Ljubljani, Slowenien; Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Special features regarding the equipment

Large geochemical laboratory (LA-ICPMS, ICP-OES, AAS, XRD, XRF, DTA-TG, IR-MS, FIAS, CSA, IC), preparation laboratory, collection, mechanical workshop, borehole logging tools, access to the synchrotron at the KIT, large infrastructure DeepStor, Geo lab.

Special features regarding research activities

Practice-oriented research, especially in the areas of hydrogeology, engineering geology, geothermics and geochemistry, urban geochemistry, urban hydrogeology, karst hydrogeology, raw material geology, multi-sensor system development; Geothermal Energy Centre Baden-Wuerttemberg; There are two endowed professorships in geothermal energy and technical petrophysics. Inter-disciplinary Research. Geo-ecology: Floodplain ecology, remote vegetation exploration, biogeographic modelling, soil science, isotope biogeochemistry.

Other special features

Strong environmental research with relevant contributions on the topic of sustainability. BSc/MSc. Geoecology, each with a focus on sustainability. Department of Wetland Ecology, a former nature conservation station, is part of the Institute of Geography and Geoecology.

Further information on research activities

Information on access restrictions

https://www.sle.kit.edu/vorstudium/studiengaenge.php https://www.sle.kit.edu/english/vorstudium/59.php

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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