Fakultät für Georessourcen und Materialtechnik at the RWTH Aachen

RWTH Aachen

Lochnerstr. 4-20
52056 Aachen
Phone: +49 241 809-6219

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General remarks

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

Basic information

Teaching in core subjects

Total number of students	970
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	not specified
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	not specified

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	70.1 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	54.6 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment, bachelor's
Contact with work environment, master's
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
Master theses in cooperation with work environment

Research

Publications per academic	3.4
Citations per publication	3.8
Third party funds per academic	124.0 T€
Doctorates per professor	1.2
Research reputation	32.6 %

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	1.8
Support in studies	1.7
Courses offered	1.9
Study organisation	1.6
Exams	2.3
Laboratory internships
Excursions
Research orientation	1.9
Job market preparation	1.7
Support for stays abroad
Rooms	2.3
Library	1.9
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation	1.9

Degree courses with details

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

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Further information provided by the department

Exchange universities for stay abroads
Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norwegen; Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italien; Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Indien; Universitat de Barcelona, Spanien; Université Grenoble Alpes, Frankreich; University of Arizona, USA; Univerzita Karlova v Prag, Tschechien; Universidade de São Paulo, Brasilien; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; Universidad de Granada, Spanien
Special features regarding the equipment
Currently the only device in Germany for "Quantitative Evaluation of Minerals by Scanning Electron Microscopy" (QEMSCAN®); cryo-electron microscope for fluid specimens to temperatures of -150°C; scientific operation of neutron single-crystal diffractometer HEiDi and POLI at the Research Neutron Source FRM II in Munich; environmental chemistry and petrophysical laboratories; high-resolution LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) for geoscience measuring; extensive field measuring equipment in all disciplines and PC laboratories with modern simulation tools.
Special features regarding research activities
Profiling in the field of "Geo resources"; extensive expertise in the field of Modelling and Simulation, combined with the Engineering disciplines; one of the strongest research university groupings in Western Europe in the Geoscience-related aspects of energy research; strong emphasis on natural gas and oil, coal and geothermal energy and CO2 storage; research on the use of subterranean areas and georisks with strong links to the Engineering Sciences
Further information on research activities
www.fgeo.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~myf/Geowissenschaften-und-Geographie/