Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften

Institut für Psychologie

Uni Magdeburg

Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Phone: +49 391 671-8469

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Basic information

Total number of students	480 *
Number of master degree students	190

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

8/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	85.0 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	45.9 %

International orientation

International orientation, bachelor's	2/9 points
International orientation, master's	2/9 points
Outgoing students	0.0 %

Research

Publications per academic	2.4
Citations per publication	4.5
Third party funds per academic	63.8 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.5

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.7
Support in studies	2.4
Courses offered	3.4
Study organisation	2.1
Exams	2.6
Research orientation	2.2
Job market preparation	3.5
Support for stays abroad	3.8
Rooms	2.4
Library	1.8
IT-infrastructure	2.5
Overall study situation	2.7

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support	2.8
Support in studies	3.0
Courses offered	3.6
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation	2.0
Support for stays abroad
Overall study situation	3.0

Degree courses with details

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

none

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About studying Psychology in Germany

About the subject

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
The research focus on environmental psychology/human-technology interaction established in the 11/12 winter semester is unique in Germany. Use of modern media: the courses use the e-Learning portals of the university; some of the lectures are also made available as video or audio streams combined with the slides in the e-Learning portal; modern computer pool enables hands-on teaching of the necessary programming and analysis skills. Data analysis teaching uses the browser-based JupyterHub environment, which can be used by all students without a license.
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Further information about study entry phase
https://www.ovgu.de/erstsemester-path-3.html
Special features regarding the international orientation
There are international partnerships in research and some in teaching, e.g. with the Universities of Oxford and Bath, UK); Radboud Nijmegen, Groningen, Eindhoven and Delft (Netherlands); Bergen (Norway); Duke, Berkeley, CalState, Cornell and Dartmouth College (USA); Barcelona (Spain); Kansai Medical and Nara Women's University (Japan); Rome III (Italy); West University of Timisoara (Romania); Nantes, (France); Campinas (Brazil). The Institute is host to staff and visiting researchers from abroad, including from the UK, USA, Italy, Spain, Poland, China, Japan, Cyprus and India.
Common partner universities for exchange
Universität Val de Marne (Frankreich); Universität Oviedo (Spanien); NTNU Trondheim (Norwegen); Kemerburgaz Üniversitesi (Türkei); Universität Fribourg (Schweiz); Warwick University (UK); Universität Gent (Belgien); TU Eindhoven (Niederlande)
Special features regarding the equipment
Several behavioural and EEG laboratories including peripheral psychophysiology and pain stimulation, eye-tracking, access to 3T and 7T MRI scanners, Transcranial magnet stimulation TMS. Computer cluster, which is used in teaching and by students for research-intensive thesis projects.
Special features regarding research activities
Close content-based and methodological links with partners of the neuro focus in Magdeburg (Clinic for Neurology, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (German Centre for Neurodegenerative illnesses), Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology). Th
Website with further information on research activities
http://www.ipsy.ovgu.de/Forschung.html
Other special features
The degree courses and neuroscience research projects of the institute are integrated into the junior staff promotion strategy of the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS; http://www.cbbs.eu/nachwuchsfoerderung). Structured programmes provide psychology graduates hoping for a career in academia up to postdoctoral level with numerous opportunities for advancement and further training. BSc/MSc students benefit directly from this network, as graduates continue to have ties with the region and make their own contributions to modern teaching.