Chemistry and Management, B.Sc.

Interdisciplinarity The Faculty of Natural Sciences unites competences in the MINT areas under one roof and maintains excellent contacts to affiliated institutes as well as external research facilities. Particularly involved in study and teaching are the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research and the Helmholtz Institute with its outstanding research in the areas of electrochemistry and energy technology. We also collaborate closely with other faculties and departments, the Engineering Sciences and Economics in particular.

Excellence teaching We pride ourselves in providing the best possible education and care for our students and complement certain lectures in the Bachelor's programme with additional support offers like classes and tutorials. Regular evaluations by the students provide valuable feedback on how well we are doing.

Quality, not quantity Manageable student numbers and a favourable student to teacher ratio ensure that you don’t have to complete your degree in a setting of educational mass production. We guarantee a laboratory place for every student in every laboratory course to avoid unnecessary elongation of your overall study time. A personal atmosphere and direct contact with your teachers complete our ideal learning conditions.

Networks and business contacts We offer you a practice-relevant education with numerous well established contacts to local businesses as well as many application-oriented research projects, some of which are conducted directly on the University’s doorstep in the renowned companies and research facilities of the Science City Ulm.

Training camp for new students Before the beginning of every winter semester we offer the tutorial ’Fit for Chemistry’ to our new students in courses of Life Sciences as part of the University Training Camp.

Attractive career prospects Our graduates have excellent chances on the job market. This is partly owed to the fact that Chemistry is most important to our daily lives in many aspects and is therefore a driving force in the big challenges of our time. Another factor is the accredited high-quality education with all its possibilities to establish a specialised profile in areas of expertise with great importance to the future.

Chemists / business chemists interested in working in the industry will find employment posibilities in:

• application-oriented industrial research
• roles responsible for manufacturing operations
• product development and application engineering, as interface between research and production
• process engineering, transferring new findings from lab scale to industrial scale
• chemical analytics: there is an almost limitless variety of matter waiting to be analysed
• environment protection, to secure a liveable future of our planet
• marketing and sales, to serve customer demands and market opportunities
• patent law, for the legal protection of research findings
• documentation, with the purpose of developing and optimising functional and efficient structures in electronic data management
• corporate communication and public relations, in order to convey complex matters of science and research to the public in an easy-to-digest format

Chemists/business chemists interested in working in teaching and research can find employment:

• at schools, to spark pupils’ interest in Chemistry and scientific questions
• at universities and other higher education institutions, as part of an exciting environment of teaching and research
• in ‘pure’ fundamental research at research institutes, with the purpose of generating new chemistry knowledge and providing scientific proof

Chemists/business chemists interested in working in civil service can find employment:

• with federal and state authorities as well as municipal offices, in the areas of environment protection, supervision, licensing and analytics
• with the trade supervisory authority (Gewerbeaufsichtsamt), in the area of technical protection of the public
• in medical centres and various service sectors

Chemists/business chemists interested in alternative areas can find employment opportunities:

• in business consultancy
• as journalists and editors
• in freelance activity