Intensive guidance, tutorials and Service Centre, good support ratio (1 professor for every 20 students), practical training and work on equipment from current research, work in the clean room, team work, modules held in English.

International degree courses with approx. 50% foreign students per semester. Cultural diversity on campus and in the city, all thesis documents are in English.

Clean room, TEM centre, centre for material analysis.

Close cooperation in research and teaching with the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology in Itzehoe and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht – Centre for Materials and Coastal Research; many collaborations with industry; extensive third-party funding

Preparatory courses (e.g. Mathematics, omb+, German as a Foreign Language), one-on-one guidance from the Service Centre, representative from Jugend Forscht (German charity promoting interest in scientific research amongst young people through competitions), coastal studies, own campus with its own infrastructure (library, canteen, computer room, etc.) located centrally.