BSc Biology (Biologie) at Justus Liebig University Giessen

Programme overview

Students study life in all its forms and learn to understand complex ecosystems, covering botany, genetics and zoology in theory and in laboratories and the field, and set their own focus later in the programme.

What you will study

Three phases: core curriculum (year 1), build-up phase (year 2) and specialisation phase (year 3). Modules are taught in four-week blocks and examined immediately after. Semester 5 can be a semester abroad and semester 6 is a research semester with the Bachelor's thesis.

Career pathways

Careers include research and development, services, management, marketing, science journalism and education, as well as national park management, environmental protection, forensics, marine biology and species conservation.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admission: no admission restriction (no NC). A recognised higher education entrance qualification (Hochschulzugangsberechtigung) is required; foreign qualifications are checked via anabin. No pre-study internship is required. Applicants with a foreign entrance qualification must also meet the German-language proof requirement. Application deadlines for winter semester 2027/28 are not yet published. English at CEFR B1 must be proven (school certificate, courses of at least 120 hours, UNIcert I, TOEFL computer-based 43 or paper-based 550, or equivalent).

Intake: Winter semester

Duration: 6 semesters (3 years), 180 CP

Apply through the official page: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/studium/bewerbung

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