Jacobs University Bremen

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Jacobs University Bremen


Established	1999
Type	Private
President	Joachim Treusch
Faculty	266 (102 professors).
Staff	102
Students	1008 (622 UG, 386 Grad)
Location	Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Campus	Urban, 80 acres (0.3 km²)
Website	www.iu-bremen.de

Jacobs University Bremen (International University Bremen, short IUB, until early 2007) is an independent research university in Bremen, Germany. Jacobs University was founded in 1999 by the collaboration of the government of the city-state of Bremen, the University of Bremen and Rice University of Houston, Texas.

Jacobs University is a private, English-speaking university in Germany, where the vast majority of universities are part of the free public education system. Jacobs University combines American and European university systems to form a system with a transdisciplinary approach.

Jacobs University comprises three schools:

School of Engineering and Science (SES)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS)
Jacobs Center for Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development (JCLL)

Like most American universities Jacobs University is a campus university. The campus was founded on the grounds of the Roland Barracks in Bremen-Grohn.

On November 1, 2006, President Treusch announced a donation to university by the Jacobs Foundation, which plans to donate 15 million € per year during the next 5 years. If the university successfully achieves its new funding goals and the implementation of its new profile during this period of time, the Jacobs Foundation plans to make another donation of 125 million € in 2011[1].

1 Colleges
2 Facilities
3 Majors
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Colleges

The Campus Center

Jacobs University has three independent residential colleges modelled after the colleges at Oxbridge. These are intended primarily as accommodation for undergraduate students, although a limited number of rooms for graduate students are also available. Each college is headed by two College Masters.

The colleges were designed by German architect Jürgen Böge. The names of the three colleges are Alfried Krupp, Mercator and College III.

[edit] Alfried Krupp College

Krupp was the first college to be established at Jacobs University in 2001. It is named after the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation.

As of 2006 there are 185 students living in the college. The current Masters are Klaus and Isabelle Schoemann since September, 2004.

Former Masters of Krupp College are:

Isabel Wünsche and Kevin Pfeiffer (2001–2002).
Hartmut Wessler and Marita Hartnack (2002–2004).
Isabelle and Klaus Schömann (2004-today).

The College color is red and the mascot is a chilli pepper.

[edit] Mercator College

The college is named after the Mercator Foundation GmbH (Germany) and the Mercator Foundation Switzerland, the main donors for its reconstruction. It was established in 2002 and officially opened on April 8, 2003.

In total, there are approximately 189 students residing in the college. The first college Masters were Klaus and Mandy Boehnke. They were recently succeeded by Vikram Unnithan and Nicole Brauch.

The mission statement of it college reads: (1) Make Diversity an Asset, (2) Care for Emotions, (3) Foster Personal Growth, and (4) Experience the Community. The college defines itself as the Arts College. It hosts the Mercator College Country Information Days.

The College color is blue and the mascot is a cat nicknamed the "MerCat".

[edit] College III

College III was established in 2003. It is largest college as it has one more residential wing than the other two colleges. It houses 235 students. The first and current Masters are Ryan and Sarah Richards.

The College color is green and the mascot is a dragon. College III has the distinction of being the three-time running champions (2004, 2005, 2006) in the annual campus-wide sports event, the IUB Olympix.

[edit] Facilities

Inside the campus area there are several research buildings called Research I, Research II, Research III, Research IV and Research V. In addition there are four labs - Lab I (sponsored by E.On energy), Lab II, Lab III and an Ocean Lab. There is a modern library called the “Information Resource Center”. For the enjoyment of students, there is a gym, a sports hall and a cinema hall.

[edit] Majors

The IUB campus.

As of 2006 a total of sixteen undergraduate majors are offered at Jacobs University leading to either the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degrees.

SHSS majors:

History
History and Theory of Art and Literature
Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology
Integrated Social Sciences
International Politics and History
Literature and New Media

SES majors:

[edit] Trivia

The Jacobs University student body comes from over 86 countries. However, the majority of students are originally from Germany, Bulgaria and Romania.The Asian region is also quite well represented at Jacobs University. Therefore Jacobs University is considered one of the most international universities in the world with around 75% of student body coming from outside Germany.

Jacobs University is known to have a very rigorous academic schedule and most of its students come from superior academic background. The fact that Jacobs University does not prefer any particular nationality in its student body (for example Germans) makes the selection even more rigorous. Students are required to take between 6 and 12 courses per semester which amounts to 30 credit points in the ECTS system, this is twice as much as the amount of credits per semester in most American universities. This, of course, is due to the fact that Jacobs University has an undergraduate program of three years instead of the normal 4 year program.

The most popular majors at Jacobs University are EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and BCCB (Biochemistry and Cell Biology) from the School of Engineering and Science, ISS (Integrated Social Sciences) and IPH (International Politics and History) from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.