Program Overview

Program Overview

The Faculty of Biosciences offers a Bachelor's degree program in Biochemistry, which is a 100% undergraduate program. Biochemistry investigates and describes the molecular structures and chemical processes occurring in living organisms at all levels of organisation. This endeavour is predicated on the perspectives, insights, and methods of organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry and of molecular biology.

Facts and Formalities

• Degree: Bachelor of Science
• Type of programme: Undergraduate
• Start of programme: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Subjects with admission restriction in the scope of the dialogue-oriented services procedure
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.

Course Content

The Bachelor’s degree programme in Biochemistry is the first part of a research-orientated Bachelor’s and Master’s programme. An essential function of the Bachelor’s degree programme is to prepare students for the consecutive Master’s degree programme in Biochemistry or the acquisition of further qualifications in related disciplines. To this end, the Bachelor’s degree programme aims to give students an initial, broad grounding in the subdisciplines of chemistry, and ensure that they understand elements of mathematics and physics required for the study of biochemistry.

Course Structure

The Bachelor’s degree programme in Biochemistry is interdisciplinary. The curriculum is organised into modules consisting of classes (lectures, seminars, practical classes, lab practicals) which consider specific topics for predefined periods of time. There is a final examination for each class.

• The first part of the Bachelor’s degree programme focusses on basic subdisciplines of chemistry.
• Extension classes, which consider further, related subdisciplines of Biochemistry, begin in the third academic semester.
• Extension elements of the course include a six-week research placement in the field of biochemistry, which may be completed at external institutions in consultation with the University.
• At the end of the Bachelor’s degree programme, students must take a final examination and must spend eight weeks completing a Bachelor’s thesis focussed on a topic from the field of Biochemistry. Both the research placement and the Bachelor’s thesis may be completed at external institutions.

Additional Degrees

• Master, consecutive