| Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg | |
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| Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | |
Logo of the Universität of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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| Established | 1742 (first) 1743 (moved) |
| Type | Public |
| President | Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Karl-Dieter Grüske |
| Students | 33.487 (WS 2011/12)[1] |
| Location | Erlangen and Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Website | www.uni-erlangen.org |
The Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (German: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg or FAU) is a university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. It is the second largest state university in Bavaria, having five Schools, 312 chairs (WS 2011/12)[2], and 12,000 employees. There are 33.487 students enrolled (winter semester 2010/2011) at the university, of which about 2/3 are in Erlangen and 1/3 in Nuremberg. There are about 2,700 foreign students.
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The university was founded in 1742 in Bayreuth by Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and moved to Erlangen in 1743. Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (one of the two namesakes of the institution) provided significant support to the early university.
From the beginning, the university was a Protestant institution, but it slowly secularized. During the Nazi era, the university was one of the first that had a majority of Nazi supporters in the student council. In 1961 the business college in Nuremberg was merged with the university in Erlangen, which led to the present state of a university divided between two towns. A technical faculty was inaugurated in 1966 and the pedagogical college in Nuremberg became part of the university in 1972.
In February 2007 the senate of the university decided upon a restructuring into five faculties [4]. Since October 2007 the FAU consists of [3]:
The following faculties were part of the university: (sorted in the order in which they were founded)
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