Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen at the Uni Freiburg

Institut für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie

Uni Freiburg

Schreiberstr. 20
79085 Freiburg im Breisgau
Phone: +49 761 203-3526 /-3563

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Basic information

Total number of students	330
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	5.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	10.0 %

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	73.9 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	10.9 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	6/12 points
Contact with work environment, master's	6/12 points
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	37.5 %
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	27.0 %

Research

Publications per academic	0.8
Third party funds per academic	42.1 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.8
Research reputation	11.8 %

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.5
Support in studies	2.5
Courses offered	2.4
Study organisation	1.9
Exams	2.9
Excursions	2.2
Research orientation	2.5
Job market preparation	3.2
Support for stays abroad
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Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation	2.4

Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

Teacher qualification students	214
Teacher qualification programmes	TQ degrees: Two-Subject-Bachelor, 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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About studying Geography in Germany

About the subject

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Broad education in physical geography, human geography, and geographic human-environment research with numerous opportunities for individual emphasis. A wide range of environmental science specialisation options in elective modules in the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Ungarn; Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Rumänien; Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spanien; Universidade de Lisboa, Lissabon, Portugal; University of Oslo, Oslo, Norwegen; Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, Frankreich; University of Latvia, Riga, Lettland; Harran University, Sanliurfa, Türkei; Stockholms universitet, Stockholm, Schweden; Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italien
Special features regarding the equipment
CIP pool with 20 work stations; student licences for MS Office, GIS, statistics.
Special features regarding research activities
Current topics of global climate and environmental change in the context of social and political conditions (e.g. climate adaptation, historical climatology; recent geomorphology; urban and metropolitan research; tourism and mobility research; political geography; interdisciplinary discourse research; geocommunication).
Other special features
Cooperation with other educational institutions in Germany and abroad; EUCOR network European Campus (Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Basel); diverse Erasmus links; partnerships with Medellin (Colombia) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA), various research cooperations involving Southeast Asian, US and European institutions and universities; research cooperation in the Centre for Water Research, Centre for Renewable Energies and France Centre at the University of Freiburg, among others.
Further information on research activities
www.geographie.uni-freiburg.de