Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften at the Uni Bayreuth

Uni Bayreuth

Universitätsstraße 30
95440 Bayreuth
Phone: +49 921 55-2525

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Basic information

Total number of students	420
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	6.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	7.5 %

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	80.6 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	12.7 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	3/12 points
Contact with work environment, master's	4/12 points
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	19.0 %
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	37.7 %

Research

Publications per academic	1.5
Third party funds per academic	16.1 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.3
Research reputation	26.3 %

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	1.9
Support in studies	1.8
Courses offered	1.8
Study organisation	1.6
Exams	1.8
Excursions	1.7
Research orientation	1.5
Job market preparation	2.0
Support for stays abroad
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Library	1.7
IT-infrastructure	1.8
Overall study situation	1.6

Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

Teacher qualification students	234
Teacher qualification programmes	TQ degrees: Bachelor of Education, Master of Education, State Exam
Teacher qualification centre	Link
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German)	Link

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Broad foundation course and subsequent specialisation options in all sub-areas of Human Geography and Physical Geography; one of the largest Geography institutes in Germany; numerous classes with relation to practice in small groups; problem-oriented and inter-disciplinary teaching; high proportion of practical work in the field; wide range of combination subjects; varied opportunities for stays abroad and work placements; relation to practice through interlinking with industry/government bodies and other organisations in the region
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Aalborg University, Dänemark; Universidad de Granada, Spanien; University of Pecs, Ungarn; University of Iceland, Island; Universiteit vam Amsterdam, Niederlande; University of Bucarest, Rumänien; Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Polen; Stockholms Universitet, Schweden; Université Bordeaux Montaigne; Tohoku University, Japan
Special features regarding the equipment
PC-Pool with 29 workstations; specialised software; the only geoscientific institute in Germany combining modern equipped laboratories for luminescence dating and magnetic dating under one roof; lending facilities for many devices (IPads, photo and video camera, GPS and recording devices, Maxqda licenses etc.).
Special features regarding research activities
Multitude of different third-party-funded research projects in Germany, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, which often have an inter-disciplinary character and which are also carried out beyond the boundaries of subject area; involvement of students in research; participation in the excellence initiative of the German federal and state governments through the Graduate School BIGSAS; broad international networking
Support for founders
Business Plan Competitions; International Business Plan Competition (Master's event); 5-Euro-Business; Bayreuth Hospitation; Entrepreneurial Thinking & Business Design (Master's event); Seminar Series of the Start-up Advisory Service; Startup Stories; Startup Day; Social Entrepreneurship Camp & Social Entrepreneurship Seminar; Seminar Series of the Start-up Advisory Service; On the Way to the Start-up University (study project); Lead User in Open Innovation.