Ruhr University Bochum
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:Infobox university The Ruhr University Bochum (Template:Langx, Template:Lang) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in 1965.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The RUB was very successful in the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments (2007), a competition between 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. 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's and master's degrees, which replaced the traditional German Diplom and Magister. Except for a few special cases, such as law, these degrees are offered by all faculties of the Ruhr-University. Currently, the university offers a total of 184 different study programs from all academic fields represented at the university.<ref name = "RUB performance">Template:Cite web</ref>
Facilities
Unlike many older German universities, the buildings of Ruhr-University are all centralized on one campus, located south of Bochum city. The Faculty of Medicine includes several university clinics that are located at different centres in Bochum and the Ruhr area. A major facility for patient care is the University Hospital/Knappschaftskrankenhaus in the district Langendreer of Bochum. Internationally renowned experts in their respective fields include professors Wolff Schmiegel in oncology and Burkhard Dick in ophthalmology. The centralized university campus architecture is comprised almost exclusively of the 1960s architecture style referred to as brutalism, consisting of 14 almost identical high-rise buildings. One striking feature of these buildings is that although their roofs are all at the same apparent height (sky level), the absolute heights of the buildings vary in accordance with their placement on the undulating landscape in which the university is located: the campus is at the edge of a green belt on high ground adjacent to the Ruhr valley.
The arrangement of the buildings and the (concrete) paths and bridges between them was originally meant to resemble a "harbour of knowledge", with the buildings symbolising vessels, by architect Helmut Hentrich.<ref name = "RUB architecture">Template:Cite web</ref>
The campus has undergone heavy modernisation and extension efforts, including the construction and refurbishment of several buildings.<ref name = "RUB campus dev projects">Template:Cite web</ref> Some of the original 1960s buildings are to be rebuilt, instead of refurbished, due to PCB contamination.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The overall campus concept envisions a modern facility<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the placement of Bochum as a "knowledge city".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Organization
Ruhr-University is financed and administered by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Currently, 42,718 students are enrolled, and the university employs around 5,600 staff (411 of which are professors),<ref name = "RUB faculty">Template:Cite web</ref> making it one of the ten largest universities in Germany as of 2014. Kurt Biedenkopf, who later became prime minister of the state of Saxony, was rector of the university from 1967 to 1969.
The university is organized into twenty-one different faculties. These are:<ref name = "RUB faculties">Template:Cite web</ref>
- 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
- Faculty of Computer science
ECUE - European Culture and Economy
- Interdisciplinary institutions
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS)
- International Graduate School of Neuroscience<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV)
Rankings
Template:Infobox Germany university rankings In the QS World University Rankings for 2024, the university was ranked 375th globally and 20th nationally.<ref name="QS"/> Meanwhile, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2024 positioned the university in a range between 251st and 300th worldwide, and between 25th and 31st in the national ranking.<ref name="THE"/> Similarly, in the 2023 ARWU list, the university placed between 301st and 400th globally and between 20th and 24th nationally.<ref name="ARWU"/>
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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
- Medical historical collection of the Ruhr-University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Art collection, including Antiquity Museum of the Ruhr-University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Audimax and Klais-Organ of the Ruhr-University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Musisches Zentrum (Artistic center)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable alumni
- Ali Atalan: Kurdish-German politician of Yazidi faith, former member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Turkish Parliament.
- Bernd Baumann: Economist and politician, serving as a member of the Bundestag from Hamburg since 2017.
- Hans-Paul Bürkner: German management consultant, serving as Global Chair Emeritus of the Boston Consulting Group.
- Andreas Floer: German mathematician known for his contributions to symplectic topology and the invention of Floer homology.
- Daniel Jasinski: German discus thrower, Olympic bronze medalist in 2016.
- Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla, CEO of German Aerospace Center, former president of the Technical University of Braunschweig.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Zdzisław Krasnodębski: Polish sociologist, philosopher, and politician, serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.
- Norbert Lammert: Politician, served as the 12th President of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2017.
- Sylvia Löhrmann: German politician of the Green Party.
- Reinhard Marx: Cardinal in the Catholic Church, serving as the Archbishop of Munich and Freising.
- Hartmut Neven: Scientist working in quantum computing, computer vision, and robotics; Vice President of Engineering at Google, leading the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.
- Melanie Raabe: German novelist and journalist.
- Maximilian Reinelt: Rower and physician, Olympic gold medalist in 2012 and silver medalist in 2016.
- Jan-Michael "Jamiri" Richter: German comic artist.
- Svenja Schulze: Politician, currently serving as the Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development in Germany.
- Erwin Sellering: Politician, served as the 4th Minister President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 2008 to 2017.
- Stefan Sommer, former CEO of ZF Friedrichshafen.
- Florian Steger, medical historian and ethicist.
- Katrin Suder: Physicist and management consultant, served as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense from 2014 to 2018.
- Sadeq Tabatabaei, writer, journalist, TV host, university professor at the University of Tehran and politician.
- Afu Thomas (Thomas Derksen), internet celebrity.
- Oliver Wittke: German politician and geographer.
- Sonja Zekri: German journalist and author, focusing on topics such as the Near East, Eastern Europe, culture, and religion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
References
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