We are a modern, high-profile university with an international orientation. The central principle guides the University of Siegen: "Creating a Common Future. " Students and academics from overseas are very welcome.
The University of Siegen is committed to interdisciplinary research. The wide range of research activities includes basic and applied research across four different schools/faculties. Please take a look at our Welcome Service for Guest researchers.
The overall goal of the University of Siegen is to contribute to a humane future and to take responsibility for people and society. This is reflected in the guiding principle of the University of Siegen: creating a shared future.
The University of Siegen has gained in attractiveness in the past few years – as the significant increase in student numbers proves. From architecture to business engineering, the university offers a versatile, high-quality program.
Across all study programs, opportunities exist to choose both individual interests and interdisciplinary study components. Students will get individual and competent support and counseling – starting with the course selection, to the study organization, to successful completion. You have ample opportunity at the University of Siegen to participate and try what you learned in practice actively.
The University of Siegen has exciting research areas, which are taught in related degree programs. The offer is also characterized by numerous extraordinary study programs, which in their combination form a unique feature nationwide. One example is the study program "Real World Economics", which also imparts knowledge in communication, ethics, or organizational development.
The various study programs in the field of media sciences are top-rated. Many students choose the University of Siegen as a place of study to profit from the broad and well-founded range of courses offered.
A further profile area is outstanding teacher training with a focus on special education. The Center for Teacher Training and Educational Research (ZLB) coordinates and organizes, as a university's central scientific institution, the interdisciplinary teacher education courses across the different schools.
With its course "German and European Economic Law", the university has successfully introduced another innovative approach. The study combines business administration with economic law and thus represents an alternative to classical study programs. The University of Siegen also offers a series of English-language courses as an internationally oriented university.
The institutional basis of research at the University of Siegen is formed by its four profiling schools and numerous scientific institutions. Four major, interdisciplinary research areas have developed:
Excellent cultural and media research has been a tradition at the University of Siegen for many years and is recognized nationally and internationally. Since the beginning of 2016, research is done in several subprojects of the DFG particular research area "Media of Cooperation" on how digital developments determine our everyday lives and what social consequences arise. Within the graduate program "Locating Media / Situierte Medien", young scientists receive high-level training.
Another excellent research focus of the University of Siegen lies in the area of sensor technology and nanosciences. For many years scientists have been researching and developing multi-sensor systems and their application, especially in chemical and biochemical sensors. Through the interdisciplinary cooperation of different working groups, the individual sub-areas range from the chip level to various algorithmic and software solutions, all the way up to systemic solutions. The research study group "Imaging New Modalities" is working in the area of sensory imaging research. Here, the central area of application is civil security.
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