RUHR UNIVERSITY

The 'Ruhr University Bochum' (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 Bochum is one of the largest universities in Germany and
part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,a society of Germany's leading research universities.
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.
The RUB is one of the few institutions left competing for the title of an "elite-university".
The decision is expected for October 2007.
There are currently only three unversities in Germany, which hold the title of
an "elite-university". Namely, the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich,
the Technical University of Munich and Karlsruhe University .
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.

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Organization

The university is organized in 20 different faculties. These are:

★ Faculty of Protestant Theology

★ Faculty of Catholic Theology

★ Faculty of Philosophy, Education and Journalism

★ Faculty of History

★ 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 Engineering

★ Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

★ Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology

★ Faculty of Mathematics

★ Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

★ Faculty of Geosciences

★ Faculty of Chemistry

★ Faculty of Biology

★ Faculty of Medicine

See also

★ List of colleges and universities

★ Bochum

★ ConRuhr

External links

★ Ruhr-Universität Bochum Website