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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

3,700

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

1,300

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

10.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

15.0%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

12/14 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

10.0%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

15.0%

Research

Publications per academic

5

Third party funds per academic

228,800 €

Doctorates per professor

1.8

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Research orientation
Offers for career orientation
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Student Workstations
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

206

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

Not specified
Support in studies

Not specified
Courses offered

Not specified
Study organisation

Not specified
Transition to Master's studies

Not specified
Research orientation

Not specified
Overall study situation

Not specified
Return rate of the questionnaires

no data

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Teaching of demanding, methodical professional competencies in the technical breadth with a high level of application competence through the projects and internships integrated into courses of the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses; teaching of numerous soft skills within the framework of integrated training courses; diverse range of research-oriented modules in all degree programs; interdisciplinary networking (engineering, economics, psychology, sports sciences, humanities); in the Bachelor's degree programme, support through an intensive mentor system; training offers for tutorial teaching.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Aarhus University, Aarhus, Dänemark; Tallinn University of Technology, Tallin, Estland; Aalto University, Espoo, Finnland; Ecole Centrale Lyon, Lyon, Frankreich; Beijing Institute of Technology, Peking, China (VR); Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Kanada; Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republik; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana und Champaign, USA

Special features regarding the equipment

Diverse, research-oriented lab equipment, amongst others, in the fields of Autonomous Systems and Robotics, Embedded Systems, High Performance Computing, (incl. special computer for AI), IT Security, Sensor Networks, Software Engineering, Telecooperation, Visual Computing, Knowledge Discovery in the Web; buildings with modern equipment and multimedia lecture theatres and learning centres for students; WiFi throughout the Campus; modern fully air-conditioned computer rooms and extensive services (SVN, Tracks, virtual machines, computing nodes) for students.

Special features regarding research activities

Overall university research fields with outstanding participation of computer science are e.g. "Cybersecurity", "Internet and Digitalisation" as well as "Artificial Intelligence"; Research Training Group "Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users"; Collaborative Research Centres "Crossing" and "MAKI"; participation in the Centre for Cognitive Science and the Centre for Computational Engineering; LOEWE Centre "emergenCITY": The Resilient Digital City; Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI); Fraunhofer Institutes (Computer Graphics, Secure Information Technology; ATHENE - Research Centre

Support for founders

The promotion of start-ups is a declared goal of the TU Darmstadt and the Department of Computer Science. The start-up centre HIGHEST of the TU Darmstadt bundles various start-up support measures. HIGHEST advises, qualifies and supports with all questions around the topic start-up. In teaching, the minor subject "Entrepreneurship & Innovation" has become established. The Department of Computer Science supports start-ups by providing resources (space, IT infrastructure, etc.) and by building up the necessary network.

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(P) = Professors' judgements

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Last Update 2021: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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