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Saarland University makes its presence felt in national and international ranking tables thanks to its clear international focus, its strong research capabilities and its successful knowledge transfer programmes. Academic teaching at Saarland University is highly regarded due to the support services offered to German and international students and to the university's drive to continuously improve online and digital teaching.
With its highly international campus, impressive levels of international student mobility, both out-bound and in-bound, and its high proportion of international students and staff, Saarland University regularly achieves impressive results in Germany's CHE University Ranking, CHE's international U-Multirank survey and in the International Student Barometer. Saarland University offers a wide range of international Bachelor's and Master's degrees in cooperation with partners from across Europe, as well as advanced professional study programmes with a distinct international focus.
According to the German Research Foundation's Funding Atlas, Saarland University is one of the most active universities in Germany in terms of acquiring external research funding. The Saarbrücken campus is home to an unusually high number of scientific institutions, affiliated institutes (including MPI, HIPS, INM) and research centres, creating close ties between teaching and research and fostering cooperation with partners from industry and business. Saarland University regularly ranks highly in international ranking tables, such as the QS World University Ranking, thanks to the strength of its research publication record.
Saarland University is also a highly successful business incubator. The wide range of innovative support services in the areas knowledge and technology transfer and entrepreneurship have yielded an impressive track record of patents and publications with partners in the private sector. As a result, Saarland University scores particularly highly in terms of alumni start-ups (see, for example, the CHE's international U-Multirank survey).
Students at Saarland University are very satisfied with the support services available to them in the early stages of their studies (CHE University Ranking). According to the CHE's international U-Multirank survey, students and teaching staff express a high level of satisfaction with the IT infrastructure used for digital and online teaching activities. Saarland University also scores highly in terms of the student-teacher ratio in its Master's degree programmes.
Physics – CHE University Ranking
In a national comparison of physics degree programmes in Germany, Saarland University received top marks in terms of programme structure and organization, the support and supervision provided by teaching staff, facilities and infrastructure (i.e. IT infrastructure, libraries, classrooms and labs) and examinations. In fact, students at Saarland University rated all of the ranking indicators as being above the national average.
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Pharmaceutical Science – CHE University Ranking
Pharmaceutical science ranks highly in terms of general programme structure and organization as well as in terms of equipment, furnishing and layout of learning spaces. It also scores highly regarding lab infrastructure and library facilities. The institutional data highlights excellent results for time to graduation, the proportion of students undertaking PhD research and the citation impact of the published research.
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Chemistry – CHE University Ranking
Chemistry students at Saarland University were very satisfied with the support offered them at the start of their studies, the overall programme structure and organization, and the methodological skills taught. Students also awarded good scores for the subject-specific knowledge and skills taught in the chemistry programmes and the quality of the lab facilities. The number of students undertaking doctoral research is well above the national average.
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Biology – CHE University Ranking
Biology students at Saarland University awarded particularly high marks for the programme structure and organization, the support provided to students interested in studying abroad and the subject-specific knowledge and skills taught. The general study environment, the lab courses and the library facilities were also highly rated. Based on the university's institutional data, the time needed to graduate from the Bachelor's and Master's programmes in biology was particularly competitive.
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Computer Science – CHE University Ranking
In key areas such as the general study environment, the support provided to students at the start of their studies, and the quality of the library facilities, we are one of the top-ranked universities in Germany for Master's programmes in computer science. We also ranked second nationally for the range and content of courses offered. Areas that received particular praise included the general programme structure and organization, the general study environment, the excellent quality of the (digital) teaching activities, and the equipment, furnishing and layout of learning spaces.
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Financial Auditing – Manager Magazin
Manager Magazin has for the third time ranked Saarland University as one of Germany's top universities for financial auditing. In its analysis of the best universities in Germany to study financial auditing in the academic year 2024/25, the influential business magazine awarded Saarland University a rating of 'very good', ranking it 11th in Germany.
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Highly Cited Researchers 2023
Thanks to their excellent citation impact score, four professors at Saarland University – Michael Böhm, Alexey Gurevich, Andreas Keller and Volker Presser – were included in the list of 'Highly Cited Researchers' for 2023.
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Master's degree Business Administration – CHE University Ranking
The Master's degree programme in Business Administration at Saarland University's was very highly rated in the CHE University Ranking 2023. In particular, the key indicators 'General study environment', 'Programme structure and organization', 'Range and content of courses offered' and the 'Transition to the Master's programme' all received excellent ratings from students.
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B.Sc. Business Economics – CHE University Ranking
The B.Sc. degree programme 'Business Economics' at Saarland University ranks very highly in terms of the support provided to students at the start of their studies and in terms of research funding per member of academic staff. It also receives above-average scores in the following areas: quality of the support and supervision provided by teaching staff, range and content of the courses and modules offered, structure and organization of the degree programme, and quality of library facilities.
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Business Informatics – CHE University Ranking
Saarland University's Business Informatics programme is one of the best in Germany when it comes to providing support and guidance to students at the start of their studies.
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Law – CHE University Ranking
Saarland University's Law degree programme scored very highly in terms of the support provided to students at the beginning of their studies and in the support provided to students preparing for the state examinations in law (revision courses, mock exams, etc.). The students who responded to the CHE survey highlighted the excellent structure and organization of the degree programme and the quality of the library facilities. They also expressed a high degree of satisfaction with the general study environment, the range of courses on offer and the support provided by the teaching staff.
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AMASE and EEIGM – CHE-University Ranking
Students on the international Master's programme AMASE and the German-French Master's EEIGM praised the strong practical focus of the Master's thesis projects (around 40% of these research projects are supervised jointly with research partners in industry). Respondents also highlighted the fact that they had access to excellent technical equipment and instrumentation during their Master's programme.
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Materials Science and Engineering – CHE University Ranking
The M.Sc. Programme 'Materials Science and Engineering' received particularly high scores from students for the general study environment, the support and supervision provided by teaching staff, the international dimension of the programme and for its structure and organization. They also praised the interdisciplinary nature of the programme, which succeeds in combining scientific and engineering fundamentals with practical applications of the material learned.
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Saarland University in CHE's international U-Multirank survey
According to the international ranking system U-Multirank, Saarland University rates 'very good' in eleven of the 33 assessment criteria and 'good' in a further six. The survey compared more than 1,900 universities in 97 countries. Saarland University was ranked among the top institutions in the areas 'Research', 'Knowledge transfer' and 'International orientation'.
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Saarland University – DFG Funding Ranking
According to the German Research Foundation's Funding Ranking, Saarland University ranks 39th out of 225 universities in terms of external research funding acquired. Of particular note is the excellent ranking position achieved on the basis of individual research funding grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC), where Saarland University moved up from 36th to 5th position in this category.
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