Fakultät für Bauingenieur-, Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften at the Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT

Institut für Geographie und Geoökologie

Karlsruher Inst. f. Technologie KIT

Reinhard-Baumeister-Platz 1
76128 Karlsruhe
Phone: +49 721 608-43483

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Basic information

Total number of students	210
Number of master degree students	66
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	4.0 %

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

6/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	82.1 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	35.7 %

International orientation

International orientation, bachelor's	0/9 points
International orientation, master's	0/9 points
Outgoing students	0.0 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	3/12 points
Contact with work environment, master's	3/12 points
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
Master theses in cooperation with work environment
Share of professors with work experience	12.5 %

Research

Publications per academic	1.2
Third party funds per academic	113.6 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.5
Research reputation	< 1%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.3
Support in studies	1.9
Courses offered	2.3
Study organisation	1.9
Exams	2.6
Excursions	less than 15 answers
Research orientation	less than 15 answers
Job market preparation	less than 15 answers
Support for stays abroad	less than 15 answers
Rooms	less than 15 answers
Library	less than 15 answers
IT-infrastructure	less than 15 answers
Overall study situation	2.0

Students' assessments on Teacher Qualification degree courses

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Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

Teacher qualification students	270
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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About the subject

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Wide range of offers in all areas of geography; Specialisation options via the neighbouring course geoecology in ecological areas (e.g. floodplain ecology); Teaching largely practice and research-oriented, such as the one-year method-oriented project seminar with close ties to communal and regional topics, specialisation in empirical social research methods
Special features regarding the international orientation
Theses are possible worldwide in numerous foreign projects.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Universität Bologna
Special features regarding the equipment
Soil physical and chemical laboratory (kf, pF, Dünnschliffe, MC-ICP-MS, IR-MS, GC-MS, GC-IR-MS, EA); Aerosol collector and counter, semi-automatic microscopic particle analysis, various climate stations, mobile climate multi-sensor systems, remote sensing (some suitable for drones), lysimeter stations (Alpin campus), greenhouse (Alpin campus)
Support for founders
KIT-central support through Innovation and Relationship Management (http://www.irm.kit.edu/)
Characteristics of assistance to differently abled persons
KIT-central support through Study Centre for the Visually Impaired (SZS) (https://www.stiftung.kit.edu/344.php)
Characteristics of diversity advancement
In addition to the four actual university professorships, the position of adjunct professor (Norra) and two professorships in the KIT Helmholtz programmes (Arneth, Rounsewell) and a KIT Associate Fellow are also incorporated in teaching. The KIT Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research thus plays a significant role in education and training. Close cooperation also exists with the Karlsruhe University of Education (PH Karlsruhe)
Other special features
In 2011, the former WWF Aueninstitut in Rastatt was affiliated to the IfGG. Close cooperation with the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, the KIT Campus Alpin, through joint professorships (Arneth, Roundswell). Close cooperation and professional exchange between geography and geoecology
Further information on research activities
www.ifgg.kit.edu/