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The University’s research profile includes a breadth of departments and is shaped by a rigorous striving for interdisciplinary development in new areas of research that have a promising future.

 

In its early years, the University of Augsburg was oriented solely to the arts and social sciences, as well as business and economics. It then expanded to add the Colleges of Law and Catholic Theology as well as the College of Education. The latter then separated into the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences and the Department of History and Philology. The importance attached to teacher training is represented today by the Central Institute of Didactics. It engages in both the research and study of didactics in conjunction with the College of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The Institutes of Information Sciences and Geography were recently merged as the College of Applied Information Sciences.

 

Environmental Studies forms a main focus that all of the colleges pursue jointly, with research in the fields of Information Technology, Media and Communication extending across disciplinary boundaries. Likewise, regional research institutes oriented to Canadian, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Institute of European Cultural History (as supporting organizations of a Graduate Studies College) exhibit an interdisciplinary approach. Cutting-edge international research is conducted at the Institute of Physics, which concentrates on the research of solids and material sciences. Its focus on “Electronic Correlations and Magnetism” as well as its own DFG special research field and a number of SFB participations are examples of its continuing commitment to excellence.