Among the world's top locations to study political science

Oxford, Yale, Konstanz – all of these universities are at the top of the latest Shanghai Ranking in the field of political science.

Konstanz is thus one of the world's best locations for political science research.

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Bachelor's degree, teaching degree or law degree? Our information event for prospective students (in German) takes place online on 20 November 2024!

Find out more about the various subjects and study programmes in presentations, live chats with professors, students and student advisors, and get lots of information about studying at the University of Konstanz. Simply join us, there is no need for registration.

A Kuhl's pipistrelle in flight searching for insects during foraging © Jens Rydell

Bats use an acoustic cognitive map for navigation

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone.

This finding, recently published in Science, was demonstrated by researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz Germany, the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

 

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University of Excellence in Konstanz

Recognized again and again: Being a University of Excellence means we support our members in the best way possible as they make their ideas reality. Our concept creative.together describes how we promote top-level research, exceptional teaching and innovative ideas – for a culture of creativity.

The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany and has been successful in the German Excellence competition since 2006. Our two Clusters of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour and The Politics of Inequality: Perceptions, Participation and Policies stand for our interdisciplinary and internationally oriented cutting-edge research.

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International

Internationalization is key for us. This is why we promote international cooperation in research and student mobility, recruit excellent international (early career) researchers and work to increase our international visibility.

By successfully participating in the European Universities Initiative, we have taken another important step towards a joint European Education Area: Within the university network European University for Well-Being (EUniWell) learning, teaching and researching across borders will become a reality.

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University of Konstanz again ranks among the top universities in Germany

The latest "Open Edition" Leiden Ranking was recently published based entirely on freely accessible data. As in the regular edition, the University of Konstanz ranked first in the two categories "Open Access" and "International Collaboration". Konstanz reaches new heights among Germany's top ten universities in the category "Scientific Impact".

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Unlocking the secrets of multispecies hunting

Scientists have made extraordinary discoveries about how otherwise-solitary octopuses and various fish species coordinate their hunts: fish serve as guides, finding prey and flagging its location, and the octopus uses its flexible arms to capture the hidden prey.

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