Ruhr University Bochum

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Ruhr-University Bochum
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Motto	menschlich – weltoffen – leistungsstark (German)^[1]
Motto in English	People-centred – Cosmopolitan – High-performance ^[2]
Established	1962
Type	Public University
Endowment	€590 million (2012)^[3]
Chancellor	Gerhard Möller^[4]
Rector	Prof. Dr. Elmar W. Weiler^[4]
Academic staff	Professor 408^[5] Junior Professor 67^[5] Academic Staff 2,724^[5]
Admin. staff	2,435^[5]
Students	38,675^[5]
Undergraduates	33,224^[5]
Postgraduates	4,990^[5]
Doctoral students	461^[5]
Other students	2,907 (International Students)^[6]
Location	Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 51°26′38″N 7°15′42″E / 51.44389°N 7.26167°E / 51.44389; 7.26167Coordinates: 51°26′38″N 7°15′42″E / 51.44389°N 7.26167°E / 51.44389; 7.26167
Campus	Urban/Suburban Campus area 4.5 sq.km^[7]
Nickname	RUB
Affiliations	UAMR, DAAD, DFG, Utrecht Network, MAUI Network, AEN Network, NOHA Network
Website	ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Ruhr-University, Main Lecture Hall, Audimax

Ruhr-University, Chinese Garden (located in the Botanical garden)

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

The Ruhr-University Bochum is one of the largest universities in Germany and part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the most important German research funding organization.^[8]

The RUB has been very successful in the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments (2007), a competition among Germany's most prestigious universities. It was one of the few institutions left competing for the title of an "elite university", but did not succeed in the last round of the competition. There are currently nine universities in Germany that hold this title.

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. Currently, 38,675 students are enrolled, and the university employs over 5,500 staff (408^[5] of which are professors), making it one of the ten largest universities in Germany (as of 2003). Kurt Biedenkopf, who later became prime minister of the state of Saxony, was director of the university from 1967 to 1969.

Unlike a number of traditional universities, the buildings of Ruhr University are all centralized on one campus, except for the Faculty of Medicine, which also includes some hospitals in Bochum and the Ruhr area. Although the centralized university campus utilizes 1960s architecture almost exclusively, mainly consisting of 14 almost identical high-rise buildings, it is located at the edge of a green belt on high ground adjacent to the Ruhr valley.

Organization

The university is organized in twenty different faculties. These are:

Faculty of Protestant Theology
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Faculty of Philosophy, Education and Journalism
Faculty of History (including the departments of History, Art History and Archaeological Sciences)
Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Social Science
Faculty of East Asian Studies
Faculty of Sports Science
Faculty of Psychology
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Faculty of Mathematics
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
Faculty of Geosciences
Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
Faculty of Medicine

English education

ECUE - European Culture and Economy

Interdisciplinary institutions

Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS)

Points of interest

Botanischer Garten der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, a botanical garden with Chinese garden
Hegel-Archiv, the archives of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

References

External links

Ruhr University Bochum Website

v t e Utrecht Network of European inter-university cooperations

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Ruhr University Bochum

Organization

Points of interest

References

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