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Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department

Fakultät 3 - Fakultät für Bauingenieurwesen

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Fakultät 3 - Fakultät für Bauingenieurwesen
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 1
D-52074 Aachen
Telephone: +49 241 80-25074
https://www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~a/root/?lidx=1
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Basic information

Teaching staff at the department

no data

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

15/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

3.0%

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

4.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

7.0%

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

4.3%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

9.4%

Research

Third party funds per academic

175,000 €

Doctorates per professor

1.3

Further information provided by the department

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Website of the Student Council

online-application

Civil Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

2,310

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

890

Teaching in core subjects

  • Basics: 39.6%
  • Constructive engineering: 24%
  • Water Management: 12.8%
  • Ressource Management: 2.3%
  • Transport Systems, Urban and Regional planning: 13.6%
  • Construction Management: 7.7%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Learning and working spaces
Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Excursions
Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation
Practical orientation in teaching
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Laboratories
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

165

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Digital teaching elements
Practical orientation in teaching
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation
Support for stays abroad
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

146

Environmental Civil Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

640

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

220

Teaching in core subjects

  • Basics: 32.6%
  • Constructive engineering: 3%
  • Water Management: 21.6%
  • Ressource Management: 28.8%
  • Transport Systems, Urban and Regional planning: 8.6%
  • Construction Management: 5.4%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Learning and working spaces
Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Excursions
Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation
Practical orientation in teaching
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Laboratories

no data

Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

61

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Digital teaching elements
Practical orientation in teaching
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation
Support for stays abroad
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

51

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Acronyms

(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

CE = Civil Engineering

EnvCE = Environmental Civil Engineering

Units

Value in percent

Value in points

Euro

Thousand Euro

Last Update 2025: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education