Fakultät für Informatik

TU Dortmund

Otto-Hahn-Straße 14
44227 Dortmund
Phone: +49 231 755-2121

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General remarks

This department is also featured in the U-Multirank world university rankings.

Basic information

Total number of students	5,360
Number of master degree students	448
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	4.0 %

Cooperative Education

Students in cooperative education

none

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

4/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	55.9 %
Graduations in appropriate time master's	28.4 %

International orientation

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

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment bachelor	2/11 Points
Contact with work environment master	2/11 Points
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	no data
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	no data
Share of professors with work experience	no data

Research

Publications per academic	2.9
Third party funds per academic	126.9 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.7

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.2 *
Support in studies	1.9
Courses offered	2.4
Study organisation	1.8
Exams	2.1
Research orientation	2.4
Job market preparation	2.3
Support for stays abroad	2.3
Rooms	1.7
Library	1.6 *
IT-infrastructure	1.8
Overall study situation	2.0

Students' assessments on consecutive Masters degree courses

Teacher support	1.9
Support in studies	2.1
Courses offered	2.6
Study organisation	2.0
Exams	1.7
Transition to Master's studies	1.8
Research orientation	2.2
Job market preparation	2.4
Support for stays abroad
Rooms	1.5
Library	1.6
IT-infrastructure	1.8
Overall study situation	2.4

Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

Teacher qualification programmes	teacher qualification degree courses are offered
Teacher qualification centre	Link
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German)	Link

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

none

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding the international orientation
Sensitisation and qualification of students and graduates for work in international contexts; Detailed personal guidance of the faculty for study visits or work placements abroad; Credit for courses taken abroad; Guidance and mentoring for international students as well as for students of the TU Dortmund by the International Affairs office; Many international cooperation agreements in research; Liaison offices of the UA Ruhr in New York, Moscow and Sao Paulo
Common partner universities for exchange
Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), Brasilien; Helsingin Yliopisto, Finnland; Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon, Frankreich; Jyväskylän Yliopisto, Finnland; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spanien; Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norwegen
Special features regarding the equipment
Department’s own computer centre IRB; 200 public student workplaces in work and teaching rooms; Own cloud hardware and software.
Website with further information on research activities
http://www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/nps/de/Forschung/index.html
Support for founders
TU Dortmund is one of the leading entrepreneur universities; the Centre for Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET) is the central university facility for business start-ups and transfer from science; tu>startup FOUNDATION: Funding pioneering research, teaching and transfer projects and accompanying excellent spin-offs in the early stages
Characteristics of assistance to differently abled persons
DoBuS - the department of “Disability and Studies” within the Center for Higher Education (zhb) at TU Dortmund University - is the central facility responsible for ensuring that students with disabilities can study successfully. It offers a range of services, including: workspace and a pool of assistive devices/technology for disabled students, advisory service for students with disabilities and/or chronic conditions, service for adapting learning materials, career service for disabled students
Characteristics of diversity advancement
TU Dortmund University has established a central structure for diversity and equal opportunity issues. Gender-sensitive early-stage support in science, transparency of appointments procedures, gender-sensitive public relations and gender controlling are as much a part of diversity management as support with childcare, implementing reasonable adjustments and dual career provisions. The Faculty of Computer Science has its own parent and child room.
Other special features
The Faculty of Computer Science offers numerous study rooms of various sizes where students can learn together in self-organised groups.