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| Universität Karlsruhe (TH) | |
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| Established: | October 7, 1825 |
| Type: | Public |
| Rector: | Horst Hippler |
| Faculty: | 276 |
| Staff: | 3,642 |
| Students: | 18,245 |
| Location: | Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Coordinates: |
| Website: | www.uni-karlsruhe.de |
The University of Karlsruhe, also known as Fridericiana, was founded in 1825. It recently merged with Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe to form the new institution, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
It is one of the most prestigious technical universities in Germany located in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany and it is recognized as one of the leading research universities.
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The University of Karlsruhe was founded as Polytechnische Schule, a polytechnical school, on October 7, 1825. It was modeled upon the École polytechnique in Paris. In 1865, Grand Duke Frederick I of Baden (German: Friedrich) raised the school to the status of a Hochschule, an "institute or university". Since 1902 The university also has been known as the Fridericiana in his honour.
In 1885 the institution was renamed a Technische Hochschule, Institute of Technology, and in 1967 it became Universität, a full university. In 1899 all technical universities, therefore including the University of Karlsruhe, were granted the right to award doctorate degrees identified as Dr. Ing. for engineering. For honorary degrees, the fields are preceded by h. c., for example, Dr. h. c. Ing. Karl Benz awarded in 1914, who was graduated from the university during his youth.
On April 6, 2006 a contract for the foundation of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was signed by Professor Horst Hippler and Dr. Dieter Ertmann from the University of Karlsruhe, and Professor Manfred Popp and Assistant Jur. Sigurd Lettow from Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The name was selected to emulate the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the leading technical university in the United States. [1]
In 2008 a 200 Million Euro donation to the university was made by SAP Co-Founder Hans-Werner Hector.
Previously, the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) was not selective in its admission policies, but in more recent years, several majors have employed a selection process with an effective exclusion grade based upon the number of available openings in relation to applications. Since the winter semester 2007-2008, the Universität Karlsruhe introduced a general selection process for all courses. After the change from a diploma system to awarding bachelor or master degrees, students of all majors are selected by a specific process determining the qualification of the students for the intended topic. [2]
Apart from this program, an attrition process takes place in the early semesters, whereby students failing to pass exams after a specific time or number of tries, drop out of university. Education at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) tends to be theoretically-oriented, requiring a high concentration of mathematical courses.
With the exception of the department of biology, [3] this university receives more funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft than any other university specializing in the natural sciences in Germany. [4] However, when compared to Germany's other universites, the university receives average funding. In the engineering sciences (except mechanical engineering where it is in the top10[5]) the university is in the top three together with University of Stuttgart and the RWTH Aachen. However the university is not in the TOP20 in the subject mathematics [6].[citation needed] More than 20% of its students are attracted from other nations and 0.6% of its students receive grants from the German Studienstiftung (German National Academic Foundation). [7] In 1998, ScienceWatch [1] ranked its chemistry faculty as belonging to "the cream of the crop in chemistry" internationally. [8]
The university has eleven faculties:
Many departments cooperate, some are shared with the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.
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