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

Department für Biologie

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Basic information

Teaching staff in core subjects

Teaching staff at the department	74
Total number of students	820
Number of master degree students	178

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/12 points

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees

81.9 %

Share of anglophone research groups

Teacher support	2.7
Support in studies	3.0
Courses offered	2.9
Teaching of technical/professional competence	4/8 points
Teaching of methodological competence	2/8 points
Teaching of interdisciplinary competence	0/6 points
Study organisation	2.1
Exams	2.8
Laboratory internships	2.4
Excursions	1.9
Research orientation	2.5
Job market preparation	2.9
Support for stays abroad	rank group not assignable
Rooms	2.3
Library	1.7
IT-infrastructure	2.2
Overall study situation	2.5

Teacher qualification students	300
Teacher qualification programmes
Teacher qualification centre	Link
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German)	Link

Further degree courses of the department

none

Special features regarding teaching
Biology (B): Interdisciplinary teaching in the basic part of the course; Modern laboratories and in the 5th and &th semester focus on molecular biology topics in (methodology) teaching; English is a compulsory module (foreign language skills acquisition); Possible specialisation in virology and immunology; ILS (B a. M): Interdisciplinary training; Interdisciplinary modules; English-language Master's degree course; Cell and molecular biology (M): Research-oriented training in molecular biology; Small group sizes; UNIcert III (English as a key qualification)
Other special features
The Department of Biology currently hosts a DFG-funded Research Training Group (www.biomembranes.de/) and an SFB Transregio (www.trr130.forschung.uni-erlangen.de). The department cooperates closely with Medicine and the Physics and Mathematics departments. Master students can choose modules from medicine (immunology, virology, human genetics). In the winter semester of 2018, a new elite study programme ‘Integrated Immunology’ is expected to start, in which the faculties of biology and medicine are equally involved.

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(S)-Students' judgements (F)-Facts (P)-Professors' judgements

Last update 2018: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education.