MA/MS in Geowissenschaften

Global environmental change and the growing scarcity of natural resources present society with wide-ranging challenges, and research into the Earth system helps address them, including in petroleum and raw-material geology and materials science. This master's program in earth sciences offers an interdisciplinary education, unusual within Germany, with the option to specialise in geology, soil science or mineralogy. It is oriented both toward current research across terrestrial, marine and atmospheric earth sciences and toward the needs of the domestic and international labour market. Career fields span research and teaching, industry and public authorities; graduates in this field, for example, study material cycles and processes on land and at sea and work in climate, soil and materials research, as well as in consulting firms or engineering and architecture practices handling ground investigations, water management, and environmental and soil protection.