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61-631: RWTH Aachen University ( German: [ˌɛʁveːteːˌhaː ˈʔaːxn̩] ), in German Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen , is a German public research university located in Aachen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study programs, it is the largest technical university in Germany. RWTH Aachen in 2019 emerged from the final of

122-526: A degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen and is known for the Debye model and Debye relaxation . Another example, Helmut Zahn and his team of the Institute for Textile Chemistry were the first who synthesised insulin in 1963 and they were nominated for Nobel Prize. Another example is B.J. Habibie , the third president of Indonesia that contributed in many aviation advancements. Franz Josef Och

183-531: A research output of more than 1000 research papers over 5 years, and no more than 80% of activity in a single subject area ( Times Higher Education World University Rankings ) . The QS World University Ranking for 2021 included 1002 research universities. The region with the highest number was Europe , with 39.8%, followed by Asia /Pacific with 26.7%, the US and Canada with 15.6%, Latin America with 10.8% and

244-640: A seven-year period. 2019 Clusters of Excellence RWTH was already awarded funding in the first and second Universities of Excellence funding lines, in 2007 and 2012 respectively. The RWTH itself has a University agreement with the Harbin Institute of Technology since 2019. In June 2024 a research by Correctiv journalists showed Chinese military involvement in several RWTH projects. From 100 RTWH professors in Mechanical- and Electrical engineering 19 had coorperated with researchers from NUDT and

305-595: A similar distribution, with 185 of their 500 ranked institutions in 2020 coming from Europe, 161 from the Americas, 149 from Asia/Oceania and five from Africa. All regions except Africa are represented in the top 100, although the Americas are represented solely by universities from the United States and Canada. In 2024, the US has the most universities in the top 500 from a single country, 114, followed by China with 103,

366-562: Is a collaborative effort of 47 principal investigators from 8 academic divisions of RWTH Aachen University, as well as Max Planck Institute for Iron Research and Forschungszentrum Jülich . RWTH Aachen University has educated several notable individuals, including some Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry. The scientists and alumni of the RWTH Aachen played a major role in chemistry , medicine, electrical , and mechanical engineering. For example, Nobel laureate Peter Debye received

427-583: Is a founding member of the CESAER association of universities of science and technology in Europe, and IDEA League , a strategic alliance of five leading universities of technology in Europe, as well as its German counterpart TU9 . It is also a member of DFG and the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network. On 25 January 1858, prince Frederick William of Prussia (later German emperor ),

488-506: Is a university faculty teaching law, or a law school faculty. Examples include: A Faculty of Management Studies is a university division teaching management studies . Examples include: In English-speaking academia, Faculty of Music normally refers to a university department, especially at Oxford and Cambridge (UK). In the US, the use of 'faculty' often relates to academic and teaching staff. Examples include: Faculty of Natural Sciences examples include A Faculty of Philosophy

549-426: Is a university faculty that can teach a range of disciplines which can include nursing and midwifery , public health , health services management and sports science . Examples include: A Faculty of Humanities is a university faculty teaching humanities . Examples include: A Faculty of Information Technology is a university faculty teaching information technology . Examples include: A Faculty of Law

610-613: The Kármán Hall are 500 m away from the city centre with the Aachen Cathedral , the Audimax (biggest lecture hall) and the main refectory are 200 m farther. Other points of interest include the university's botanical garden ( Botanischer Garten Aachen ). A new building, the so-called Central Auditorium for Research and Learning (CARL) was opened in 2017. It offers space for 4000 students and replaces Audimax as

671-571: The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia (Legislation for the Improvement of Equal Opportunities to University Admission) with effect from Winter Term 2011/12. Universities will receive 249 Mio Euro of national funding for measures that improve the quality of teaching (e.g., through additional teachers and tutors) as compensation. Tuition fees per semester are still being charged. The RWTH is divided into nine (previously ten) faculties: Faculty nine

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732-583: The Middle East and Africa with 7%. All regions except the Middle East and Africa were represented in the top 100. The largest number of new entrants to the rankings were from East Asia and Eastern Europe , followed by Southern Europe . By individual country, the US has the most institutions with 151, followed by the UK with 84, China with 51, and Germany with 45. The top 200 shows a similar pattern with

793-633: The Seven Sons of National Defence initiative and 45 had benefited from Chinese government funding. The money, in some cases channelled through companies privately held by RWTH professors, went, among other things, to projects with military applications, including radar technology for drones . RWTH Aachen University's 620 acres (250 ha) campus is located in the north-western part of the city Aachen. There are two core areas – midtown and Melaten district. The Main Building, SuperC student's center and

854-528: The University of California , have served as models for research universities around the world. Having one or more universities based on the American model (including the use of English as a lingua franca ) is a badge of "social progress and modernity " for the contemporary nation-state . The Americans' continued dominance into the early 21st century has forced their European counterparts to confront

915-533: The trivium ( grammar , rhetoric , dialectics ) and the quadrivium ( arithmetic , music , geometry and astronomy ). In German, Scandinavian, Slavic and related universities, it would more often be called the Faculty of Philosophy . The degree of Magister Artium (Master of Arts) derives its name from the Faculty of Arts, while the degree of Doctor Philosophiae (Doctor of Philosophy) derives its name from

976-411: The 1500 universities ranked from 86 countries: the U.S. is again top, with 255, followed by China with 176 and the UK with 87. The 2024 CWTS Leiden Ranking includes 1,506 universities in the rankings from 65 countries: China tops the list, with 313, followed by the U.S. with 206, and the UK with 63. Faculty (division) The medieval University of Bologna , which served as a model for most of

1037-519: The 2015 ranking published by DAAD together with Centre for Higher Education Development and Die Zeit , RWTH Aachen also stands on top among other German universities in the aforementioned fields of engineering and computer science. RWTH Aachen took 3rd place in 2018 based on the number of top managers in the German economy measured by the number of DAX board of management members. In 2019, RWTH Aachen took 2nd place. The top 3 universities in 2019 with

1098-447: The 2022 ARWU Subject Ranking, RWTH Aachen ranks first in Germany in chemical engineering. In 2009, two prominent German newspapers, Handelsblatt and Wirtschaftswoche , ranked RWTH Aachen the first place in Germany in the fields of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, and computer science. In 2012, Handelsblatt ranked The RWTH School of Business and Economics amongst top 10 within Germany. In

1159-478: The American military–industrial complex and developing artificial intelligence , and Berkeley and Stanford played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley . The "most prestigious group of research universities" in the United States is the Association of American Universities . Since the 1960s, American research universities, especially the leading American public research university system ,

1220-518: The American context, as having values of intellectual freedom, initiative and creativity, excellence, and openness, with such additional characteristics as: Global university rankings use metrics that primarily measure research to rank universities. Some also have criteria for inclusion based on the concept of a research university such as teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and conducting work in multiple faculties ( QS World University Rankings ), or teaching undergraduates, having

1281-411: The Faculty of Architecture as a "professor of figure and landscape painting", Brandis became dean in 1929. World War I , however, proved a serious setback for the university. Many students voluntarily joined up and died in the war, and parts of the university were shortly occupied or confiscated. While the (then no more royal) TH Aachen (Technische Hochschule Aachen) flourished in the 1920s with

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1342-413: The Faculty of Philosophy, German name of the same faculty. Whether called Faculty of Arts or Faculty of Philosophy , it taught a range of subjects with general and fundamental applicability. The higher Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine were intended, much like today, for specialized education required for professions. The Faculty of Theology was the most prestigious, as well as least common in

1403-550: The RWTH Aachen is higher-than-average. The proximity of Aachen to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg combined with the subsequent exposure to a variety of cultural heritages has placed RWTH Aachen University in a unique position with regards to the reflection and promotion of international aspects and intensive interaction with other universities. In Asia, RWTH Aachen collaborates with Tsinghua University to offer Tsinghua-Aachen (Germany) Joint Master Program. RWTH Aachen

1464-690: The UK with 35 and Germany with 35. The top 200 shows the similar pattern: the US with 59 followed by China with 37 and the UK with 20. The 2024 Times Higher Education only gives a breakdown by country and only for its top 200; this again has the U.S. at the top with 56, followed by the UK with 25, Germany with 21, and China with 13. The top 200 features one university from Africa, the University of Cape Town in South Africa , but none from Latin America . The U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking 2021 gives numbers by country for

1525-526: The US having 45 universities, the UK 26 and Germany 12. By comparison, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2015) identifies 115 US universities as "Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity" and a further 107 as "Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity", while Altbach estimated that there were around 220 research universities in the US in 2013. The Academic Ranking of World Universities shows

1586-438: The United States and Japan also have well-known private research institutions. Institutions of higher education that are not research universities or do not aspire to that designation, such as liberal arts colleges , instead place more emphasis on student instruction or other aspects of tertiary education, whereas research university faculty members, in contrast, are under more pressure to publish or perish . The concept of

1647-606: The certification of new knowledge" through the awarding of doctoral degrees , and continue to be "the very center of scientific productivity". They can be public or private , and often have well-known brand names. Undergraduate courses at many research universities are often academic rather than vocational and may not prepare students for particular careers, but many employers value degrees from research universities because they teach fundamental life skills such as critical thinking . Globally, research universities are overwhelmingly public institutions , while some countries like

1708-514: The cities of Aachen , Bonn, Cologne and Düsseldorf also applied, with Aachen and Cologne being the main competitors. Aachen finally won with a financing concept backed by the insurance company and by local banks. Groundbreaking for the new Polytechnikum took place on 15 May 1865 and lectures started during the Franco-Prussian War on 10 October 1870 with 223 students and 32 teachers. The new institution had as its primary purpose

1769-711: The city center and Melaten district. The SuperC, the new central service building for students, was opened in 2008. The groundbreaking for the new Campus-Melaten was in 2009. Double degrees and student mobility are promoted with other technology universities through the TIME ( Top Industrial Managers for Europe ) network. Furthermore, the RWTH is member of the IDEA League , which is a strategic partnership among four of Europe's leading research universities, including TU Delft , Chalmers University of Technology , and ETH Zürich , and

1830-495: The education of engineers, especially for the mining industry in the Ruhr area ; there were schools of chemistry , electrical and mechanical engineering as well as an introductory general school that taught mathematics and natural sciences and some social sciences . The unclear position of the new Prussian polytechnika (which officially were not universities) affected the first years. Polytechnics lacked prestige in society and

1891-617: The establishment of American hegemony by the end of the 20th century. Most importantly, Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, and Princeton (along with Birmingham and Cambridge in the UK) directly participated in the creation of the first nuclear weapons (the Manhattan Project ). Besides that, Columbia and Harvard were instrumental in the early development of the American film industry (Hollywood), MIT and Stanford were leaders in building

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1952-454: The fields of engineering (especially mechanical engineering, electrical engineering ), as well as amongst the top three in computer science , physics , chemistry , and medicine. Almost all basic lectures are held in German, but an increasing number of master programs require proficiency in English for admission. RWTH Aachen is run by the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia . Since

2013-520: The first 500 years—and generally one that popes sought most to control. Although also a professional education for clergy, theology (until the Enlightenment) was also seen as the ultimate subject at universities, named "The Queen of the Sciences", and often set the example for the other faculties. The number of faculties has usually multiplied in modern universities, both through subdivisions of

2074-500: The first courses. In 2007, RWTH Aachen was chosen as one of nine German Universities of Excellence for its future concept RWTH 2020: Meeting Global Challenges , earning it the connotation of being a "University of Excellence". However, although the list of universities honored for their future concepts mostly consists of large and already respected institutions, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research claimed that

2135-419: The follow-up concept The Integrated Interdisciplinary University of Science and Technology: Knowledge, Impact, Networks , also receiving grants for associated graduate schools and clusters of excellence . The university regularly accounts for the highest amount of third-party funds among all German universities, placing first per faculty member and second overall in the most recent survey from 2018. RWTH Aachen

2196-416: The following faculties: Faculty of Commerce examples include: Faculty of Economics ( Ekonomski fakultet in most South Slavic languages) may refer to, amongst others: Faculty of Education examples include: Faculty of Engineering examples include: The title, Faculty of Graduate Studies , refers not to a specific area of study, but to a graduate school . Examples include: A Faculty of Health

2257-457: The foundation of philosophical and medical faculties in 1965 and 1966, respectively, the university became more "universal". The newly founded faculties in particular began attracting new students, and the number of students almost doubled twice from 1970 (10,000) to 1980 (more than 25,000) and from 1980 to 1990 (more than 37,000). Now, the average number of students is around 42,000, with about one third of all students being women. By relative terms,

2318-695: The initiative aimed at promoting universities with a dedicated future concept so they could continue researching on an international level. Having won funds in all three lines of funding, the process brought RWTH Aachen University an additional total funding of €180 million from 2007 to 2011. The other two lines of funding were graduate schools , where the Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science received funding and so-called "clusters of excellence", where RWTH Aachen managed to win funding for

2379-592: The introduction of more independent faculties , of several new institutes and of the general students' committee , the first signs of nationalist radicalization also became visible within the university. Nazi Germany 's Gleichschaltung of the TH in 1933 met with relatively low resistance from both students and faculty. Beginning in September 1933, Jewish and (alleged) Communist professors (and from 1937 on also students) were systematically persecuted and excluded from

2440-600: The largest lecture hall building. The name of the new central auditorium, which is going to contain different lecture halls, is a reference to Charlemagne , who reigned his empire from Aachen in the middle-ages. The RWTH has external facilities in Jülich and Essen and owns, together with the University of Stuttgart , a house in Kleinwalsertal in the Austrian Alps . The university is currently expanding in

2501-536: The late 19th century, when these fifteen institutions began to graft graduate programs derived from the German model onto undergraduate programs derived from the British model. At Johns Hopkins, president Daniel Coit Gilman led the development of the American research university by setting high standards for recruiting faculty and admitting students, and insisting that faculty members had to commit to both teaching and research. Research universities were essential to

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2562-424: The later medieval universities in Europe, had four faculties: students began at the Faculty of Arts, graduates from which could then continue at the higher Faculties of Theology , Law , and Medicine . The privilege to establish these four faculties was usually part of medieval universities' charters, but not every university could do so in practice. The Faculty of Arts took its name from the seven liberal arts :

2623-527: The most popular study-programs are engineering (57%), natural science (23%), economics and humanities (13%) and medicine (7%). In December 2006, RWTH Aachen and the Sultanate of Oman signed an agreement to establish a private German University of Technology in Muscat . Professors from Aachen aided in developing the curricula for the currently five study-programs and scientific staff took over some of

2684-677: The most top managers were the LMU Munich , the RWTH Aachen and the Technische Universität Darmstadt . According to the Stepstone Salary Report for Graduates 2019/2020 , graduates of RWTH Aachen are amongst the highest earners in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics . From 2001 to 2013, national rankings regularly identified RWTH Aachen as one of the best universities in Germany in

2745-522: The number of students decreased. This began to change in 1880 when the early RWTH, amongst others, was reorganized as a Royal Technical University , gained a seat in the Prussian House of Lords and finally won the right to bestow Dr.-Ing. (1899) degrees and Dipl.-Ing. titles (introduced in 1902). In the same year, over 800 male students enrolled. In 1909 the first women were admitted and the artist August von Brandis succeeded Alexander Frenz at

2806-728: The research facilities: The Aachen Institute for advanced study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES) is a graduate school established in 2006 under the German Universities Excellence Initiative at the RWTH Aachen University. Research at AICES is broadly in the area of Computational engineering , solving inverse problems that find applications in mathematics, computer science and engineering , mechanical engineering and natural sciences . AICES

2867-426: The research university first arose in early 19th-century Prussia in Germany, where Wilhelm von Humboldt championed his vision of Einheit von Lehre und Forschung (the unity of teaching and research), as a means of producing an education that focused on the main areas of knowledge, including the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities , rather than on the previous goals of the university education, which

2928-533: The summer semester of 2004 the state of North Rhine-Westphalia allowed universities to request a maximum of €500 per semester as tuition fees. In the past, tuition fees applied solely for long-term students and second studies. Since the summer semester of 2007, all students enrolled at the RWTH Aachen had to pay these €500, if they were not exempt for one of several reasons put forth by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 24 February 2011 study fees were abolished by

2989-566: The teaching bodies of medieval universities (the others being Law , Medicine and Theology ), the Faculty of Arts was the lowest in rank but also the largest (the higher faculties admitted only Arts graduates). Instead of "Arts", this faculty often had the name " Philosophy ". Nowadays this is still a common name for faculties teaching humanities (e.g.,) Norwegian : Det filosofiske fakultet , Slovene : Filozofska fakulteta ). A Faculty of Classics may be focused on ancient history, culture and ancient literature. The title may refer to

3050-595: The third federal and state excellence strategy. The university will be funded as a university of excellence for the next seven years. RWTH Aachen was already part of the federal and state excellence initiative in 2007 and 2012. Since 2007, RWTH Aachen has been continuously funded by the DFG and the German Council of Science and Humanities as one of eleven (previously nine) German Universities of Excellence for its future concept RWTH 2020: Meeting Global Challenges and

3111-501: The three clusters: Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication (UMIC) , Integrative Production Technology for High-wage Countries and Tailor-Made Fuels from Biomass (TMFB) . RWTH was selected to receive funding from the German federal and state governments for the third Universities of Excellence funding line starting 2019. RWTH's proposal was called "The Integrated Interdisciplinary University of Science and Technology – Knowledge. Impact. Networks." and has secured funding for

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3172-519: The traditional four faculties and through the absorption of academic disciplines that developed within originally vocational schools, in areas such as engineering or agriculture. A Faculty of Arts is a university division teaching in areas traditionally classified as "liberal arts" for academic purposes (from Latin liberalis , "worthy of a free person", and ars , "art or principled practice"), generally including creative arts , writing , philosophy , and humanities . A traditional division of

3233-477: The university were destroyed or heavily damaged. After World War II ended in 1945 the university recovered and expanded quickly. In the 1950s, many professors who had been removed because of their alleged affiliation with the Nazi party were allowed to return and a multitude of new institutes were founded. By the late 1960s, the TH had 10,000 students, making it the foremost of all German technical universities. With

3294-449: The university. Vacant Chairs were increasingly given to NSDAP party-members or sympathizers. The freedom of research and teaching became severely limited, and institutes important for the regime's plans were systematically established, and existing chairs promoted. Briefly closed in 1939, the TH continued courses in 1940, although with a low number of students. On 21 October 1944, when Aachen capitulated , more than 70% of all buildings of

3355-540: The urgent need for reform to avoid "declining into an advanced form of feeder colleges for the best American universities." John Taylor, Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of Liverpool , defines the key characteristics of successful research universities as: Philip Altbach defines a different, although similar, set of key characteristics for what research universities need to become successful: A 2012 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report defined research universities, in

3416-569: Was pedagogical sciences , but it was abandoned in 1989. Teacher education , however, continued. The university cooperates with the Fraunhofer-Institutes situated in the Melaten district of Aachen . The institutes offer workshops, courses and lectures for the students of RWTH Aachen. The Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) was founded by the RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2007. Five sections are coordinated by

3477-592: Was given a donation of 5,000 talers from the Aachener und Münchener Feuer-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft , the precursor of the AachenMünchener insurance company , for charity. In March, the prince chose to use the donation to found the first Prussian institute of technology somewhere in the Rhine province . The seat of the institution remained undecided over years; while the prince initially favored Koblenz ,

3538-742: Was ranked #106 globally (#5 nationally) in the QS World University Rankings 2024, #90 globally (#5 nationally) in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024, and #201–300 globally (#10–19 nationally) in the ARWU World Rankings 2023. In the 2023 QS Subject Ranking, RWTH Aachen ranks first in Germany in mechanical engineering and materials sciences. In the 2023 THE Subject Ranking, RWTH Aachen ranks second in Germany in engineering and computer science. In

3599-500: Was the chief architect of Google Translate . Werner Tietz is one of the leading engineers of the Volkswagen Group and vice president of SEAT. Research university A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are "the key sites of knowledge production ", along with "intergenerational knowledge transfer and

3660-437: Was the first German university starting an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program in 2008. Compared to other German universities the RWTH Aachen received the highest amount of funds granted by third-party donors in the last years. More than 7,000 international students are currently enrolled within the undergraduate, graduate or PhD programme. Compared to other German universities the portion of international students at

3721-746: Was to develop an understanding of truth, beauty, and goodness . Roger L. Geiger , "the leading historian of the American research university," has argued that "the model for the American research university was established by five of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution ( Harvard , Yale , Pennsylvania , Princeton , and Columbia ); five state universities ( Michigan , Wisconsin , Minnesota , Illinois , and California ); and five private institutions conceived from their inception as research universities ( MIT , Cornell , Johns Hopkins , Stanford , and Chicago )." The American research university first emerged in

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