Master's Programme Chemistry and Technology of Materials

The Master's Programme Chemistry and Technology of Materials is offered as an inter-university course in partnership with the University of Vienna. Students may take courses at both universities with no bureaucratic hurdles.

The master's programme Chemistry and Technology of Materials provides specialised high-quality training in both science and methodology, and is geared towards lasting knowledge. This will enable graduates either to extend their qualifications further with a relevant doctoral study programme or to take up employment in areas of activity at the interface between chemistry and the technology of materials, and will make them internationally competitive. Graduates of this course have a broad understanding – based on the principles of chemistry and physics – of the relationships between the composition, structure and morphology of materials and of their chemical and physical properties. Their skills in chemistry will enable them to synthesise, modify and characterise materials for a range of different purposes.

The theoretical and practical abilities gained from the course will enable them to apply the relevant methods of synthesis, modification and characterisation in a problem and goal-directed manner, and to select a material suitable for a particular purpose.

Graduates of the course will be in a position to develop problem-solving solutions to issues of material chemistry both independently and in teams with engineers, physicists, material scientists and other scientists – issues that are of great importance to society in the 21st century.

Standard duration of study: 4 semesters (120 ECTS credits)

Entry conditions: bachelor's degree in Technical Chemistry or completed degree in a relevant subject from a recognised domestic or foreign higher education establishment. Relevant courses include, in particular, bachelor's, master's and other degrees programmes in the following subject areas:

  • Technical Chemistry
  • Chemistry