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Chaotischer Studiengang
It could be good but...
If you have a look at the description of the program on the official website, you will most probably like it. Famous professors, interesting subjects, an internship... However, it is just words, in reality, it has turned out to be the most horrible academic experience in my life.
1) Organisation. When we started our first semester, the structure of the program got changed. After it happened, we got almost 0 support. Nobody could explain to us what the new requirements were and what we had to do to complete the program. The teachers kept changing the final assignments and could not tell us properly if we were going to be graded for the course or not just because they also had no clue about the new structure. In total, we spent around 2-3 semesters just figuring out what we had to do. On top of that, most of the professors left or are going to leave soon and nobody warned us about that beforehand. As a result, we are still missing the head of the department and there is only one professor who can supervise the master's thesis..
Another problem is that they do not have courses for master's students. Both master's and bachelor's students are in the same courses so as a master's student I haven't learned anything new so far.
2) Grading. The courses taught in the program are allocated to modules. Students get a mark not for the course but basically for the module. The module mark is the mark for final assignments which means that all other types of activities (i.e. participation, projects, presentations, etc.) are not considered at all. So, you can be a very diligent and active student but your performance will be graded based solely on your final assignment which is usually a paper. In terms of paper, some teachers simply do not know what they want from their students and cannot explain explicitly what their expectations are that often results in students' performance.
All in all, the current mood of the master's students in this program is worse than ever. Many students switched to other universities and programs, the rest is just struggling. I often hear the students complaining about how bad and demotivated they feel. Some of them think that they are not good enough and they are "stupid" just because some teachers tried to impose this sort of opinion on them. In one of the previous comments, it was mentioned that there was that one professor who made students teach a course instead of him. That's how the whole program works. The students are supposed to show excellent performance while the teachers themselves hardly can do their job and provide any assistance or even explain the requirements of their own course.
1) Organisation. When we started our first semester, the structure of the program got changed. After it happened, we got almost 0 support. Nobody could explain to us what the new requirements were and what we had to do to complete the program. The teachers kept changing the final assignments and could not tell us properly if we were going to be graded for the course or not just because they also had no clue about the new structure. In total, we spent around 2-3 semesters just figuring out what we had to do. On top of that, most of the professors left or are going to leave soon and nobody warned us about that beforehand. As a result, we are still missing the head of the department and there is only one professor who can supervise the master's thesis..
Another problem is that they do not have courses for master's students. Both master's and bachelor's students are in the same courses so as a master's student I haven't learned anything new so far.
2) Grading. The courses taught in the program are allocated to modules. Students get a mark not for the course but basically for the module. The module mark is the mark for final assignments which means that all other types of activities (i.e. participation, projects, presentations, etc.) are not considered at all. So, you can be a very diligent and active student but your performance will be graded based solely on your final assignment which is usually a paper. In terms of paper, some teachers simply do not know what they want from their students and cannot explain explicitly what their expectations are that often results in students' performance.
All in all, the current mood of the master's students in this program is worse than ever. Many students switched to other universities and programs, the rest is just struggling. I often hear the students complaining about how bad and demotivated they feel. Some of them think that they are not good enough and they are "stupid" just because some teachers tried to impose this sort of opinion on them. In one of the previous comments, it was mentioned that there was that one professor who made students teach a course instead of him. That's how the whole program works. The students are supposed to show excellent performance while the teachers themselves hardly can do their job and provide any assistance or even explain the requirements of their own course.