Overview
Areas of study
Materials surround us everywhere in our everyday lives - be it our clothes, our bicycles or our mobile phones. The spectrum of materials is wide: they range from natural products such as wood, wool or cotton to classic materials such as steel or cast iron and specially developed composite materials.
Modern functional materials, so-called advanced materials, are created through targeted changes to materials at a molecular level. Today, these specially developed materials are of immense importance in all high-tech areas such as medicine, mobility, communication, energy supply and aerospace.
The Bachelor's degree programme in Advanced Materials teaches the basic knowledge in chemistry, physics and mathematics that is required for a fundamental understanding of such materials. This knowledge is taken up and applied to material science issues. You will thus acquire all the necessary basic knowledge for the production and application of modern materials, both theoretically and practically in the laboratory.
In addition, basic knowledge of socially relevant aspects such as raw material consumption, the circular economy and recycling will be taught in order to sensitise you to current problems in material extraction and recycling. If you are enthusiastic about science, enjoy experimenting and are looking for a degree programme with excellent career prospects, then you have come to the right place!
The degree programme is offered jointly by the Departments of Physics (Faculty 07) and Chemistry (Faculty 08).
Subject-specific prerequisites
You should have an interest in natural sciences and be keen to carry out practical work yourself in order to experimentally develop, characterise and optimise new functional materials. Basic knowledge of maths, physics and chemistry is taught in the first two semesters, but in-depth knowledge from school in at least one of the three areas is very helpful.
English language skills at level B 1 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) must be available or must be acquired within the first two semesters.
There is a corresponding preliminary course for all first-year students on this degree programme. Participation is strongly recommended. More on this...