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Biology / Bioscience, Department

Fakultät für Biowissenschaften

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Fakultät für Biowissenschaften
Im Neuenheimer Feld 234
D-69120 Heidelberg
Telephone: +49 6221 54-5648
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,770

Teaching in core subjects

  • General Biology/Evolution, Genetic: 40.4%
  • Biochemistry/Biophysics/Physiology; Cell- & Developmental Biology: 36.5%
  • Zoology: 7.7%
  • Botany/Plant Science: 7.7%
  • Microbiology: 3.8%
  • Ecology: 3.8%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/14 points

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
subject-specific skills
methodological skills
interdisciplinary skills
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Laboratory internships
Excursions
Research orientation
Offers for career orientation
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

92

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Highly research-oriented teaching in all degree courses, wide range of optional required courses, wide range of options for individual specialisation, strong links with the related subjects (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine) as well as with non-university institutions on site or university centres.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Promotion of study abroad; individual study counselling; mobility window; credit transfer; English courses already in the Bachelor's degree; language courses. ERASMUS and Life Science for Health exchange programmes (with Karolinska and Leiden).

Special features regarding research activities

Strong academic links with university and non-university institutions on site (EMBL, DKFZ, HITS, MPI).

Other special features

Strong academic links with non-university institutions on site (EMBL, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), HITS, MPI).

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(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

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

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