High employee potential for microsystems engineering companies due to excellent higher education network.

• Microsystems engineering is an interdisciplinary technology and Baden-Württemberg‟s higher education establishments offer a wide range of courses related to this sector.

• At the nine universities and 23 higher education establishments in the state, approximately one sixth of all students follow courses in disciplines related to microsystems engineering. This places Baden-Württemberg above the average for Germany as a whole.

• Measured against the whole of Germany, around 17% of graduates in disciplines related to microsystems engineering graduate from higher education establishments in Baden- Württemberg.

• The Institute for Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg is one of the largest engineering sciences university institutes in Europe. MEMS, microsystems and nanotechnology are the main focus of research and teaching. The University of Freiburg offers Masters degrees in “Intelligent.

• Embedded Microsystems” and Bachelors/Masters degrees in “Microsystems Engineering”. The Universities of Karlsruhe and Stuttgart also have excellent courses for students interested in microsystems engineering, including courses at the Karlsruhe Institute for Microstructures Engineering and Stuttgart University Department of Microsystems Engineering.

• The specialist higher education establishments in Baden- Württemberg offer a wide range of courses in the field of microsystems engineering, such as the “Mechatronics and Microsystems Engineering” course at Heilbronn and “Mechatronics/Precision and Microsystems Engineering” at Esslingen.

* Courses of study related to microsystems engineering (MST): IT, physics, general engineering, electrical engineering
Source: German Office of Statistics