Apart from medicine and pharmaceutics, Bremen University teaches the whole spectrum of academic disciplines. Students can choose between 100 Bachelor and Master Programs in some 35 different academic disciplines. All the study programs at Bremen University are accredited, i.e. certified degree programs leading to a professional qualification.
As a rule, the programs at Bremen University involve full-time attendance, that means you will be occupied virtually all the time. The advantage of this is that you can concentrate fully on the enthralling process of academic learning, sharing the experience in a student community and participating in campus life.
However, because it is not always possible for everyone to be away from home for such long periods each day, the University also offers a number of e-learning programs. In this way students can manage their own time, studying via the Internet when and where they wish.
Bremen has a study account law, which means you can study for 14 semesters without paying tuition. It also means that you don’t immediately have to start paying tuition if you go over the regular study period.
You can always get help with planning your studies by talking to advisors at the study centers located in the different faculties. You can also learn about study techniques and how to work more efficiently by participating in one of the courses run by the study workshop.
Guest auditors and students who prefer extra-occupational studies will find what they need in the wide range of courses offered by the Center for Continuing Education.
Bremen University is a Campus University; that means, all the buildings used by the University institutes and for teaching and other activities connected with your studies are located close by one another on the campus, forming a closely knit research and teaching community. Everywhere you go, whether on the campus itself, the lecture rooms and halls, cafeterias, the generously proportioned main library, or the surrounding green “Uni Park” – everywhere you will come across students and academic staff with varying interests and initiatives coming from virtually every region and country of the world and representing all academic disciplines. Our students are free to use all the facilities and offers available on the campus. It’s up to you to take full advantage of the multifaceted contact possibilities open to you – also to past graduates of Bremen University , our ”alumni“. A first class opportunity for this is during the freshers orientation week.
The University’s 20,000 students and academic staff naturally leave their mark on the cityscape – especially in the districts of Horn, Neustadt, and the trendy downtown district known as the “Viertel“ (Ostertor/Steintor/Peterswerder). Numerous cultural offers and initiatives, sports events, and waterfront life all contribute to the vibrant town life. And everything can be reached so easily by bike or, if you prefer, by using the excellent public transport facilities with your semester ticket.
Bremen University’s guiding principles convey an idea of the high demands placed on the quality of teaching and studies. Whether and to what extent these are fulfilled depends a great deal on you: Learning is by no means a one-way street or a programmable process. It involves a lot of hard work as well as dialogue and discourse.
The same is true for shaping the study conditions. That is why Bremen University’s quality management focuses on the stakeholders, living from the evaluations and suggestions of students and teachers. You will be regularly asked to give your evaluation of the quality of courses, conditions of study, and your assessment of how well your studies are preparing you for a future career.
Each faculty has its own committees to monitor and deal with matters surrounding the quality of studies – e.g. departmental committees or quality circles. If you would like to have more details of this, you can contact the respective Deans of study centers.
It is up to you to help shape the best possible conditions for study. Who should know better than you where your real interests lie, in which areas you feel support and motivation could be better, and what you would possibly like to see changed? The student representatives in study programs, individual faculties and at the university governance level bundle student proposals and are THE first people to approach in such matters. In addition to this, there are many other possibilities for you to become active together with your fellow students and teaching staff in various committees, initiatives and working groups.
The offices of the Deans and the President are also most receptive to student feedback. Each semester they organize forums for feedback and an exchange of views at so-called „Semestergipfel“. And if you should ever feel that any issue you are especially interested in is being neglected, you can always set up a new initiative and seek support from your fellow students.
