Great employee potential for the chemical industry due to an excellent higher education landscape.

• The universities in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe (TH), Konstanz, Stuttgart, Tübingen and Ulm as well as the specialist higher education institutions in Aalen, Esslingen, Isny/Allgäu, Mannheim and Reutlingen have a first-class range of courses available to students interested in chemistry and make highly-qualified specialists available to the chemical sector in Baden- Württemberg.

• Baden-Württemberg’s higher education landscape has a balanced mix of the various chemical specialisms. Enterprises have highly motivated experts in inorganic as well as organic chemistry, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry, analytical chemistry, technical chemistry and biochemistry available to them.

• Around 2% of students at Baden-Württemberg’s higher education establishments decide to study chemistry. Around 2% also graduate successfully with a degree in chemistry. If other areas of study relevant to chemistry such as physics and biology are taken into account, this means that the chemical enterprises of the south- west have access to a large pool of high-qualified specialist staff.

• At present, the chemical industry in Baden-Württemberg trains approx. 3,000 trainees every year and in doing so has increased the availability of training places since the mid 1990s by almost 50%.

* Courses related to chemistry (Ch.): chemistry
Source: National German Office of Statistics