Good tutor-student ratio from the bachelor’s degree, small exercise groups, additional tutorials and exam preparation courses, group work rooms, online availability of textbooks, language centre with a range of courses that are free for students; Close links with other faculties and their courses, good CIP facilities.

Courses in German and English; specifically in the Master's degree course in Systems Engineering: Option to specialise in "Information & Communication Systems" taught entirely in English, i.e. five German-language and one English-language specialisation are available, German-French study offer, lecturers with international contacts with easy to organise periods abroad, international exchange of lecturers; generally: Internationalisation strategy; University of the Greater Region

Microtechnology clean room lab (ISO7 clean room) for lithography, sputtering/etching technology, wafer bonding; wafer prober; thermal camera; computer rooms with up-to-date equipment (CIP room); industry-oriented centre for mechatronics and automation engineering (ZeMA); multi-material capable 3D printer; modular engine test system for small/micro drives; Scanning electron microscope; production options for electronic circuits (programs for creating layouts/circuit simulation, SMD soldering furnace, circuit board milling machine); Powerful/profess. software for construction, calculation, measurement data processing, simulation.

Energy Efficient Systems; Human-Technology Interaction; Microsystems and biophotonics; microelectronics: high-speed components for the Internet of the future (100 Gbit Ethernet, 10 Tbit Ethernet) as well as low-output display actuation; automotive production engineering; Drive technology and unconventional actuators, cooperation with research institutes on the university campus, e.g. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Fraunhofer institutes for non-destructive testing and IBMT, Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Lecture on business start-ups, professorial mentoring programme for business start-ups, starter centre with professional economic and legal advice, premises can be made available on campus for business start-ups, business start-ups can be supported by the ‘Gründer-Campus Saar’ (organised by the Contact Office for Knowledge and Technology Transfer [KWT] at Saarland University)

Very good staff-student ratio and close proximity (campus university); adjacent industry-related research institutes (FhG-IZFP, FhG-IBMT, INM, KIST, ZeMA); Students are very well prepared for career entry; students involved in research projects at an early stage; close links with Materials Science and Materials Engineering; very good range of courses in the language centre; Detailed information about the degree courses can be found atwww.systemsengineering.uni-saarland.de.