Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät at the Uni Erl.-Nürnb./Erlangen

Institut für Geographie

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General remarks

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

Basic information

Total number of students	1,170
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	7.5 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	not specified

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/14 points

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	80.2 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	34.0 %

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	2/12 points
Contact with work environment, master's
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	not specified
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	not specified

Publications per academic	3.1
Third party funds per academic
Doctorates per professor	0.7
Research reputation	15.8 %

Teacher qualification students	628
Teacher qualification programmes	TQ degree: Master of Education
Teacher qualification centre	Link
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German)	Link

Further degree courses of the department

Exchange universities for stay abroads
Yarmouk University, Jordanien; Universitetet Bergen, Norwegen; Minnesota State University, USA
Special features regarding the equipment
Isotope mass spectrometer, dendroecological + soil science lab, ICP-OES, spectroradiometer, LAI meter, SPAD, 5 differential GNSS, helicopterborne georadar (25 and 50 MHz), laser altimeter (airplane/helicopter), 1 small drone with 20 MP camera, 10 climate monitoring stations (AWS), 5 automatic climate data loggers, 2 steam ice drills, 2 multi-core processing mainframes, approx. 30 GPS, soil science field instruments, 2 CIP pools (licenses: ArcGIS, PCI-geomatica, AgiSoft, GAMMA Remote Sensing), large-scale cartography equipment, 3 geodata servers (approx. 300TB), Geodata Centre Erlangen, GEO-Map + GEO-Dok databases.
Special features regarding research activities
International and interdisciplinary orientation and networking; focus on Environmental Studies - especially in the field of climate research using state-of-the-art remote sensing and geoinformation methods - and on Contested Geographies, a conceptual framework in which geographies are examined as "cultural", i.e. as socially constituted, negotiated and thus often contested; research on Big (Geospatial) Data; close integration of research and teaching (especially Master's degree courses); international joint research project with student and lecturer exchange
Further information on research activities
www.geographie.nat.uni-erlangen.de/forschungen/