Oldenburg. Students taking a degree in the English-language master's programme in Neurocognitive Psychology feel very well looked after at the University of Oldenburg. In surveys for the latest Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) University Ranking they said they received excellent supervision and support. In addition, students of psychology gave the department top marks for study organisation, the range of courses on offer and its research orientation. Students are also very satisfied with the overall study situation and praise the university and its Department of Psychology for the practical orientation of its teaching and a wide range of digital teaching elements. The results of the CHE University Ranking were published this week in DIE ZEIT newspaper’s study guide.
The psychology department also excelled regarding the research indicators “Third party funds per academic” and “Doctorates per professor” and is in the top group in Germany in terms of research funding, securing more than 101,000 euros per academic. The same goes for doctoral supervision: the average number of doctoral candidates per professor was 1.3, which attests to individual, close and high-quality supervision of young researchers.
The Department of Psychology has been offering the specialised, research-based Neurocognitive Psychology master's degree programme since 2010. Key features are a focus on the use of modern neurocognitive research methods and on students carrying out their own research projects as part of their studies. In this way, they benefit from the department’s high-level research.
The CHE University Ranking is the most comprehensive comparison of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the German-speaking world. It is based on surveys of around 120,000 students at more than 300 universities and universities of applied sciences, as well as dual (work and study) universities and vocational academies. In addition to facts on studying, teaching and research, the ranking contains student assessments of study conditions at their institution, including supervision, the range of courses on offer and practical orientation. A third of the subjects taught at HEIs is re-evaluated every year. This year, psychology was the re-evaluated subject for the University of Oldenburg.