| University of Paderborn | |
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| Universität Paderborn | |
| Motto | Die Universität der Informationsgesellschaft |
| Motto in English | The University of the Information Society |
| Established | 1972 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | €157.3 million (annually) |
| Rector | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nikolaus Risch |
| Academic staff | 5 |
| Admin. staff | 1.764 |
| Students | 15,228 |
| Location | Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany |
| Campus | urban |
| Website | www.upb.de |
The University of Paderborn (German: Universität Paderborn) in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was founded in 1972. 15,228 students were enrolled at the university as of December 2010.[1]
Particularly notable is the newly established Master of Arts program in Comparative Literature in the faculty of Cultural Studies.
In 2006 the computer science program has been ranked among the top 3 programs in the most comprehensive and detailed ranking of German universities by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) and the German weekly news magazine "Die Zeit". Also in 2006 the university has been ranked among the leading institutions for gaining research funding in the areas of electrical engineering, computer science and systems engineering by the German Research Council (DFG).
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The University of Paderborn has two campuses:
The main campus is located at the Warburger Straße in Paderborn. Most lectures take place here. The residence halls are located at the campus or nearby.
The Fürstenallee campus is connected to the main campus via the 'uni' bus. Mainly computing institutes can be found at the Fürstenallee. Next to the Fürstenallee building is the world's biggest computer museum, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum.
The University of Paderborn consists of five faculties:
Department of English and American Studies; Department of Educational Sciences; Department of Protestant Theology; Department of German Studies and Comparative Literary Studies, History Department; Department of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Catholic Theology, Department of Art, Music, Textiles; Department of Media Studies; Department of Romanic Languages
Department of Management; Department of Taxation, Accounting and Finance; Department of Business Information Systems; Department of Economics, Department of Business and Human Resource Education; Department of Law
Department of Physics; Department of Chemistry; Department of Sports and Health
Sixteen professorships; four interdisciplinary research centers
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology; Department of Computer Science; Department of Mathematics
The Computer Science department of the University of Paderborn has a strong international research reputation. A ranking recently published by the Association for Computing Machinery placed the department's Software Engineering the 16th best in the world, and top in Germany. The most recent German CHE ranking placed Paderborn's CS department among the top four CS departments in Germany. The Department's partnerships with locally and globally operating IT companies such as Siemens, Wincor Nixdorf, and SD&M as well as with the strong regional mechanical engineering industry in embedded systems, gives the students the unique opportunity of getting to know prospective employers even before they graduate.