Own Student Service Centre to offer students support; Tutorials and rehearsals, internship attempts; Student group projects such as "Formula Student Germany", "Robocup", VDE/VDI/VWI university groups, "student management consulting”; Improvement of study conditions through tuition fees (Free State of Bavaria) and "QUIS project" within the framework of the "Quality Pact for Teaching of the BMBF” (Quality Pact for Teaching from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); Since 2008, annual award of the seal of approval of the "Fakultätentag FTMV" following years of successful evaluation.

Own Student Service Centre to offer students support; Tutorials and rehearsals, internship attempts; Student group projects such as "Formula Student Germany", "Robocup", VDE/VDI/VWI university groups, "student management consulting”; Improvement of study conditions through tuition fees (Free State of Bavaria) and "QUIS project" within the framework of the "Quality Pact for Teaching of the BMBF” (Quality Pact for Teaching from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); Since 2008, annual award of the seal of approval of the "Fakultätentag FTMV" following years of successful evaluation.

Courses taught in English, numerous international Guest professors in English, special English courses for department students in small groups, study and work placements abroad, integrated semester abroad for International Production Engineering and Management. Intensive counselling and supervision of a stay abroad for students of all degree courses of the Department of EEI and Mechanical Engineering, regulated crediting process.

State-of-the-art labs and test halls; Cleanroom hall, high-voltage hall, photovoltaic test field, audio laboratory, antenna laboratory, medical technology laboratory, control technology laboratory, mobile radio laboratory, EMC laboratory, drives laboratory, measurement technology laboratory, real-time simulators (energy supply), embedded wireless laboratory. state-of-the-art CAD-compliant workstations; fast free WiFi for students; cheap computers, laptops and software for students.

Department of Mechanical Engineering with very high level of third-party funding (approx. EUR 18 million per year); heavily involved in all projects of the university's Excellence Initiative; Head of a Collaborative Research Centre and a Transregio; Close involvement of students, e.g. as student assistants and in bachelor/master theses

excellent career prospects for graduates: Erlangen is the city with the highest income for engineers in Germany (source: compensation-online.de / FAZ), engineering graduates from FAU have the second highest starting salaries in Germany (source: Stepstone, as at 2014).