Integrated Climate System Sciences
Abschluss
: Master of ScienceFakultät
: Mathematik, Informatik und NaturwissenschaftenRegelstudienzeit
: 4 SemesterStudiensprache
: EnglischStudienbeginn
: zum WS, SemestertermineBewerbungsfrist
: 15.02. bis 31.03.Zulassungsbeschränkung
: JaStudiengebühren
: keine, aber SemesterbeitragAkkreditierung
: Ja
Beschreibung des Studiengangs
The MSc program in Integrated Climate System Sciences (ICSS) is a study program that teaches across all subjects involved in climate research in order to provide a holistic picture of the climate system. This interdisciplinary approach enables you to understand the processes of climate variability and climate change and its respective consequences for societies, including how they respond to these.
The analysis and assessment of our climate and earth system increasingly require interdisciplinary competencies. Not least because of the pressure to act with regard to adaptation to climate change, there is an increasing demand for interdisciplinary scientists and climate experts.
Our interdisciplinary claim challenges the traditional subject-related teaching. The MSc ICSS has developed special interdisciplinary courses and enables study projects, theses and mentoring in a cross-curricular and research-oriented context.
Through this approach and the imparting of interdisciplinary competences, the MSc ICSS has a unique selling proposition. The location in Hamburg with access to Germany´s hub for Climate research offers ideal study conditions.
The program has an internationally unique focus on physics and modelling and offers three areas of specialization:
- Physics of the climate system
- Biogeochemistry of the climate system
- Climate-related economics and social sciences
Classes are limited to 20 students. This research-oriented program was re-accredited by ASIIN in 2018.
Further information is available here: https://www.sicss.uni-hamburg.de/msc-programs/msc-integrated-climate-science.html
Berufliche Perspektiven
Graduates of the MSc Integrated Climate System Sciences face excellent career prospects in fields such as academia, development cooperation, or consultancies.
49% of our graduates pursue a PhD, whereas 10% find positions in development cooperation or industry. The transition rate to adequate employment is very good. After graduation, almost 75% of our graduates find a position in less than six months.
Many international graduates seek employment in Germany and return to their countries of origin a couple of years later. The reason for this lies in the increased expectations for the qualifications of professionals and executives especially in developing countries. Specialist and managerial positions often require an international MSc degree and subsequently a doctoral degree.
Studienaufbau
The MSc program in Integrated Climate System Sciences will give you a strong background in natural sciences and modelling skills and an understanding of the climate-relevant aspects of social and economic sciences.
Students study mandatory courses and elective courses from the three program tracks:
- Physics of the climate system
- Biogeochemistry of the climate system
- Climate-related economics and social sciences
During the first semester MSc program in Integrated Climate System Sciences, students take courses from all three program tracks. From the second semester the program opens the opportunity to give your personal curriculum either an “in depth” focus on one of the tracks or an “interdisciplinary” approach where you combine various courses from the three tracks. In the fourth semester, you will join a scientific research group and write your master thesis under the supervision of two climate scienticts.
We will encourage you to look beyond your own discipline. You will become both an expert in your specific field and proficient in interdisciplinary thinking!
Individual academic advising is available throughout the program. We strongly urge first semester students to attend orientation activities in the beginning weeks of October.
Weiterführende Links
Angebote zur Studienorientierung
Videos:
- Video 2020: “What is it like to study Integrated Climate System Sciences at SICSS?”
- Video 2019: „Interdisciplinary Research at SICSS“
- Video 2019: “Planet in Transition: A Roadmap to the Global 2°C Target” Panel discussion as a conclusion to the course “Uncertain 2 degrees” of the MSc ICSS program.
- Video 2015: „Integrated Climate System Sciences (ICSS): A MSc program between "indepth focus" and interdisciplinarity“
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Zulassungsvoraussetzungen
Allgemeine Zulassungsvoraussetzungen für alle Masterstudiengänge:
Nachweis des Erststudiums, Sprachkenntnisse
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Kontakt
Allgemeine Studienberatung
Fachspezifische Studienberatung
School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences
Universität Hamburg
Grindelberg 5
20144 Hamburg
Email: sicss@uni-hamburg.de
Stand: 10. Mär. 2023