Ruhr University

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Ruhr-University Bochum Ruhr-Universität Bochum


Established	1962
Type	Public
Endowment	$457.26 million
Rector	Prof. Dr. Elmar Weiler
Faculty	2,425
Students	33,685
Location	Bochum, Germany
Website	http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

Ruhr-University, Audi Max

Ruhr-University, building of the Faculty of Education

Ruhr-University, Chinese Garden

The Ruhr University (German Ruhr-Universität Bochum, RUB), located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962, the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Classes opened in 1965.

The Ruhr-University was one of the largest university in Germany in the late 1980s and early 1990's with more than 40,000 students.

The University of Bochum was one of the first universities in Germany to introduce international Bachelor and Master degrees, which replaced the traditional German Diplom and Magister. Except for a few special cases (for example in Law) this process has been completed and all degrees been converted. Today the university offers a total of 150 different study programs from all fields.

Ruhr University is financed and administered by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, where it is the only university housing medicine, engineering, humanities, social sciences, theologies, and natural sciences at the same time. Currently, 33,685 students (January 2007) are enrolled, and the university employs some 5,000 staff (of which almost 400 are professors), making it the ninth largest university in Germany (as of 2003). The former prime minister of the State of Saxony, Kurt Biedenkopf, was director of the university from 1967 to 1969.