The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is a young, dynamic university founded in 1991, which has already achieved a remarkable reputation. Today, our courses of study offered by the Faculties of Civil Engineering, Design, Information Sciences, Social and Educational Sciences as well as Stadt|Bau|Kultur provide a well-grounded university education with strong professional prospects. Alongside the various disciplines' specializations, the exchange of ideas harbors the excellent potential for innovative developments. We provide optimal supervision for students and research-based learning as a framework for international teaching. Furthermore, our modern infrastructure and a strong focus on applied research in cooperation with economic and public partners distinguish us.
These close links with regional and international partners enable us to offer our students praxis-oriented study programs from day one onwards. Interdisciplinary projects allow students to work with fellow students and teaching staff from other Faculties. Under our guiding principle of "Research-driven Learning," students can swiftly become acquainted with applied research methods. In 2010, this approach received an award from both the Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany and the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs. Our University of Applied Sciences Potsdam has been credited with "Excellence in Teaching," a distinction it shares with only three other universities of applied sciences in all of Germany.
We welcome researchers, partners, and students worldwide and provide support for those who want to study and work with us.
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is a young, dynamic university founded in 1991. Today, 27 courses of study offered by the Faculties of Stadt|Bau|Kultur, Civil Engineering, Design, Information Sciences, and Social and Educational Sciences provide a well-grounded university education with strong professional prospects. Some 100 professors, assisted by about 200 lecturers and other staff members, offer teaching for around 3,500 students.
We are most pleased that you are considering studying at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.
In our five Faculties of Social and Educational Sciences, Stadt|Bau|Kultur, Civil Engineering, Design, and Information Sciences, we have a wide range of attractive and rewarding Bachelor's and Master's courses of study on offer.
Research at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam stands for practical applicability, knowledge transfer between disciplines, and the opening up of research for students within the framework of "research-driven learning." The University's wide spectrum of study areas is matched by its broad range of research activities and research methods. Alongside the various disciplines' specializations, exchanging ideas between disciplines harbors the excellent potential for innovative developments.
Our society's challenges lie above all in the ongoing demographic, ecological, infrastructural, technological, and economic transformation processes, which can be tackled only by interdisciplinary research. In reaction to this situation, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences has, over the past few years, continually raised its research profile and has now established three focal areas of research: Urban Futures, Social and Regional Transformation, and Information and Visualization. In each of these foci, research disciplines from the social, cultural, IT, medial, engineering, and artistic sciences are involved. "Urban Futures" and "Information and Visualization" (or Interaction Design and Information Visualization) have been recognized as research foci by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (HRK) and have accordingly been entered on the HRK's Research Map.
To back up these focal areas of research, the interdisciplinary Institute for Urban Futures (IMF) was founded in 2014: it is to be a central institution in the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences with the remit of taking up inter-and transdisciplinary issues in the field of urban futures and pursuing them in related research projects. The IMF has been assigned three dedicated research professorships with the following respective research fields: resource-optimized and climate-compatible building methods, sustainable urban development strategies, and information and visualization. Despite its national and international network involvement, the IMF sees itself as a catalyst for applied research in cooperation with regional actors. It plays a leading and seminal role in establishing new research laboratories and co-operative research initiatives with companies and institutions.
The Potsdam University of Applied Sciences stands for the dovetailing of research and teaching. The FLEX formats and the new research-oriented Master's courses of study in Urban Futures and Early Childhood Studies (in cooperation with the University of Potsdam) further extend our university-wide research, learning, and knowledge, through which we support and foster student initiatives.
The CECL is an independent and neutral institution that seeks to cooperate with those active in construction engineering. Its overall aim is to foster new developments and analyze new or only partially calculable constructions with experimental procedures in conditions approximating closely to reality. This is relevant, especially for already existing old buildings or constructions. The analyses can be carried out on all common building forms, especially on solid constructions (ferroconcrete, prestressed concrete, masonry, composite constructions) made of steel, wood, synthetic materials, or composite materials.
With its digitalization lab, the Faculty of Information Sciences possesses a facility that is excellently equipped to assist teaching and research. The technology available here makes it possible to experience practical terms such as electronic inventorization, object digitalization and working with original prototype material, including storage, digital storage, and long-term digital archivization. Digitalization processes can thus be tested hands-on concerning specific problems in cooperation with project partners.
