LAS Stories
Here, students and alumni give you insights into their studies, experiences, and next destinations in and beyond Freiburg.
Current and recent LAS students across cohorts and Majors give accounts of their studies and experiences at UCF. If you want to get in touch with students and alumni, please contact the UCF Student Council.
This sequence is part of a video Magdalena Burtscher and Patrick Léon Gross, two LAS alumni, produced for the Graduation Ceremony 2018, looking back on their studies in Freiburg.
About 80% of our students spend part of their studies abroad. In preparation of your international study experience, take a look at students’ study abroad testimonials:
The Green LAS Bags World Tour
In their Electives, students can earn credits by completing an internship during their studies. Here you can find some inspiration from current and former students:
Here, alumni provide insights into their trajectories since graduating at UCF. Please also see our After LAS page.
Wika majored in Governance and graduated from UCF in 2025. Currently she is enrolled in the Midwifery program at the Warsaw Medical University.
Lucca majored in Life Sciences and graduated from UCF in 2019. Currently, he is enrolled in a Master in Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience at FU Berlin.
Marilena majored in Governance and graduated in 2016. After UCF, she enrolled in a Master of Law (LL.M.) in International Criminal Law at University of Galway.
Veronika is a pioneer UCF alumna from 2016 with the Earth and Environmental Sciences Major. She started her PhD graduate studies at Penn State University in August 2016.
Carl studied Culture and History and then completed an MA in Museum Studies at UvA. He has a PhD position at UvA and the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum.
The Governance Alumni Newsletter from February 2025 features an interview with Yared Debelo, a Governance graduate from 2016 who looks back on his LAS studies!
Take a look at the UNISQUARE Alumni Reportage, a documentary with alumni interviews, produced in a course on Journalism by Prof. Sabine Rollberg.