Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät at the HU Berlin

Institut für Chemie

HU Berlin

Brook-Taylor-Straße 2
12489 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 2093-7280

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Basic information

Total number of students

720

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

63.9 %

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Support in studies
Teaching of technical/professional competence
Teaching of methodological competence
Teaching of interdisciplinary competence
Study organisation
Laboratory internships
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires	less than 15 participants

Degree courses with details

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Further degree courses of the department

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About studying Chemistry in Germany

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Research-oriented degree course: Questions from the fields of materials, medicine and energy; consequences of the central idea of Humboldt's educational ideal of the unity of research and teaching; analytical chemistry as an independent subject in the curriculum as a unique selling point; diverse elective modules; offer of a preliminary math course; teaching of practical/craft skills in intensively supervised internships; close contact with professors and lecturers; well-organized course of studies, no overlapping of schedules.
Special features regarding the international orientation
ERASMUS contracts for stays abroad with universities in Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, UK; internationally staffed professorships; cooperation of the SALSA graduate school with ETH Zurich.
Special features regarding the equipment
Moodle learning platform to support teaching and communication; CMS: Public computer workstations, training rooms with IT equipment; wide range of e-books provided by the university library; provision of the most important databases in chemistry (Römpp Online, SciFinder, Reaxys).
Support for founders
HU Gründerhaus and Gründerservice; support for spin-offs through opportunities to share analytical services at the Institute of Chemistry.
Other special features
Information day for pupils: Experience Chemistry @HU (lectures & practicals on current research topics); regular participation in the "Long Night of the Sciences" (experimental lectures, hands-on experiments...).); 1/3 of the professors are members of IRIS (Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences) in Adlershof (interdisciplinary research of novel hybrid materials & functional systems with previously inaccessible optical, electronic, mechanical & chemical properties); close connection to graduate school SALSA (Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof).