Characteristics and Goals

The Land Use and Water Management Master programme ist chiefly research-oriented; it serves to impact interdisciplinary competencies, as well as problem-solving approaches for the rural areas. Our graduates should be able to analyse and manage conflict areas resukting from evolving land use and water management demands. The programme provides students with interdisciplinary qualifications, allowing them to critically assess scientific findings, and qualifying them to make their own contributions to development-oriented land use research and specific water management issues, under consideration of the needs of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In the context of evolving frameworks, course content of this kind prepares graduates to flexibly and independently tackle challenges, which other academic programmes would not be able to achieve in such a comprehensive manner.

This Master programme builds on basic knowledge and skills aquired in the undergraduate Bachelor course Land Use and Water Management.

Study Projects

Study projects are a special feature og this degree programme. We give our students the opportunity to conceive and publish their own small projects, which are useally linked to the university's ongoing research endeavours. Students internalise skills that will help in their later careers.  

Guided by motto "Research forms reachers" the programme exposes students to our faculty's ongoing research activities, as well as to extramural research facilities involved in our teaching efforts. Taking the Lausitz region as the point of departure, we examine landscapes such as the Spreewald, agricultural landscapes from the point of view of various technical disciplines. Knowledge and skills gained in these projects flow directly into our academic courses. Our aim is to advance scientific knowledge of landscapes and their ecosystems, thereby encouraging our graduates to continue work in this field.

Areas of related interests

Areas of activity range from agriculture and forestry, water management and tourism, to producing, processing and, marketing renewable resoures, to nature and environmental protection, in addition to soil conservation and cleaning up contaminated land.

Course Structure

- 11 compulsory modules:

- Novel land use concepts, soil conservation, ecology and nature conservation, Renewable raw materials technologies, ecosystems analysis

- Freshwater conservation and water management, water and waste water treatment

- Market research, Environmental Law and Approval Procedures

- Transdisciplinarity

- Two Study Projects

- ECTS

- Prescribed study duration: four semesters

- Admissions requirements:

 - Bachelor with at least six semesters in a subject related to environmental science, land use, or water management

 - Bachelor with grade point average better than 2.7 (ECTS: Grade C)

Students are admitted for the winter semester of each year

- no admissions restrictions

- no tuition fees