Qualification profile

Following the bachelor programme graduates acquire the following skills and competences:

General skills and competences

Graduates will

• be able to learn independently;
• have the numerical skills to analyse data using quantitative methods;
• effectively use electronic, as well as traditional, information technologies;
• integrate information from a variety of sources to analyse complex issues;
• communicate effectively in oral presentations and in written reports for both specialist and non-specialist audiences;
• work effectively in a team.

Subject-specific skills and competences

Graduates will

• have basic knowledge in mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, informatics and aspects of the social sciences;
• have an overview of atmosphere, biosphere, pedosphere, hydrosphere and anthroposphere;
• apply their disciplinary knowledge in system-oriented and interdisciplinary contexts;
• profit from exemplary insights into theoretical concepts and quantitative methods of an environmental system;
• have basic knowledge in selected areas of environmental technology;
• know how to incorporate aspects of the social sciences and humanities into their work;
• have basic knowledge to analyse real-life problems, to develop solutions and assess their merit.