Environmental Chemistry, Master of Science (M.Sc.)

In the two-year master´s programme, you learn to address global environmental chemical challenges with knowledge, skills, and experience from an application-oriented and strongly interdisciplinary perspective. Aside from the core understanding of processes in air, soil, and water, subjects include inorganic and organic chemistry, microbiology, toxicology, ecosystem analysis, and human-environment interactions. Tutorials in small groups enable hands-on experience of the front-end analytical techniques in the individual research groups and development of solution-oriented thinking and creativity. You are trained in critical reflection, abstraction, and logical argumentation as well as oral and written communication. Different perceptions of environmental challenges by students from different countries at different stages of development and with different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds are integrated to sharpen understanding of international contexts.

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Doing a doctorate at the University of Bayreuth

The University of Bayreuth Graduate School supervises doctoral students of all subjects who are pursuing a doctorate in a structured programme or at one of the University's seven faculties. We facilitate scientific exchange already in the earliest phase of independent research, and complement the interdisciplinary education of doctoral students with additional teaching and training opportunities. Our aim is to create the perfect research and learning conditions for them.

You can find all the information on doctoral studies in Bayreuth on the homepage of the Junior Scholar Office WiN.

Environmental Research has a long‐standing tradition in Bayreuth. The study programme geoecology (today with a bachelor and master programme) was designed in Bayreuth in the late 1970s and rapidly became a success story. Today, it can be studied at 6 universities throughout Germany. In 1989, the Bayreuth Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research was founded to investigate complex ecological interdependencies with a focus on forest die-back. Today, the focus has further broadened and about 25 research groups are organized in the Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research. The assembled expertise provides unique opportunities for national and international students joining weekly seminars, using our joint laboratory facilities or our national and international network for your master´s theses. The new programme Environmental Chemistry is centrally organized by six groups, which are the research groups for Atmospheric Chemistry, Environmental Geochemistry, Experimental Biogeochemistry/Microbiology, Hydrology/Hydrochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, and Soil Ecology/Soil Chemistry (for further details see Your Lecturers).

Specific features and further information

• Part-time study is possible.
• Aptitude assessment process
• Flyer
• Study Programme: Module Overview

Semester fee

The University of Bayreuth does not charge tuition fees. However, every student must pay the semester fee. This includes the fees for the Studentenwerk Oberfranken and the semester ticket for the use of public transport in the cities of Bayreuth and Kulmbach and in many parts of the regional transport system.

The module handbook provides an overview of the various modules that must be taken in a degree programme. It contains all the important explanations on the requirements and types of module examinations as well as on the intermediate or final examinations and serves as a kind of study guide for orientation.

Examination regulations lay down the content and structure of a specific degree programme in a legally binding manner. They must be approved by the Ministry of Science or accredited by an accreditation agency.