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Type
  
Public

Endowment
  
€ 204 million (2017)

Total enrollment
  
20,127 (2016)

Established
  
1972

Phone
  
+49 5251 600

Motto
  
Die Universität der Informationsgesellschaft

Motto in English
  
The University for the Information Society

President
  
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Wilhelm Schäfer

Address
  
Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany

Notable alumni
  
Dieter Zetsche, Anja Feldmann, Meinolf Sellmann, Udo Frese

Profiles

University of paderborn top 7 facts


Paderborn University (German: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the wintersemester 2016/2017. It offers 62 different degree programmes. University Paderborn ranks high in areas like Computer Science or Business Management. The number of students enrolled at the university has steadily increased in recent years, and as a result, the university is continuously expanding and updating the infrastructure.

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Particularly notable is the newly established Master of Arts program in Comparative Literature in the faculty of Cultural Studies. The university houses the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing that supports research activities in wide areas of Computational science and Engineering.

The university has several winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and ERC grant recipients of the European Research Council. Furthermore, in 2002, the romanian mathematician Preda Mihăilescu proved the Catalan conjecture, a number-theoretical conjecture, formulated by the French and Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan, which had stood unresolved for 158 years.

In 2006, the computer science program was ranked among the top 3 programs in the most comprehensive and detailed ranking of German universities by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) and the German weekly news magazine "Die Zeit". In the same year, the university was ranked among the leading institutions in terms of gaining research funds in the areas of electrical engineering, computer science and systems engineering by the German Research Foundation.

The interdiciplinary research centers at the university include Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn center for Parallel Computing, Paderborn Institute for Scientific Computation, Cooperative Computing and Communication Laboratory (C-Lab) and Software quality lab (S-lab). RailCab is a research project by Paderborn University. Its purpose is the examination of the use of linear engines for the propulsion of autonomous, rail mounted vehicles.

At Paderborn University, a number of Student Groups exist and meet regularly. AStA (Allgemeiner Studierenden Ausschuss) is the board of Student Representatives, who, through their engagement, have an influence on university politics and organisation and run certain campus facilities such as the photocopiers. Student Faculty Committees (Fachschaften) protect the interests of other students in that department. The “Fachschaft” remains in constant contact with professors and other lecturers and passes on important information to students. It offers help with timetable planning and is thus an important contact for all academic matters. Eurobiz is a voluntary student group that helps international students to find their way around. They organize weekend trips and farewell parties, university parties and several other (spontaneous) events during the semester.

Orchestra of the university of paderborn


History

The Theological Faculty, which was founded in 1614 by Dietrich von Fürstenberg, is the oldest university in North Rhine Westphalia. A regionally significant collection of paintings, kept in the rooms of the Faculty, recalls the period of promoterism and of the Archdiocese Paderborn.

Campus

Paderborn University has two campuses:

  • The main campus and
  • The campus in Fuerstenallee
  • Main campus

    The main campus is located at the Warburger Street in Paderborn. Most lectures take place here. Paderborn University owns two student halls of residence, both of which are just off the main campus.They consists of several buildings separated by yards, providing the enough space to barbecue and play soccer during the summer. The main campus also houses the library. The university’s library also has an excellent reputation. Because of its large selection of electronic media, and its long opening hours and lending periods, it is considered to be one of the best university libraries in the state.

    International Office

    The international office of Paderborn University is interconnected with over 140 partner universities worldwide and offers a large variety of exchange programs. The international office works closely with the student organization Eurobiz e.V. which looks after incoming exchange students and introduces them to Germany and the German culture.

    Fürstenallee

    The Fürstenallee campus is located 5 km from the main campus and is connected to the main campus via the 'uni-line' bus. Some academic activities of the computer science and Systems engineering departments are held at the Fürstenallee campus. Next to the Fürstenallee building is the world's biggest computer museum, the Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum. The museum exhibits historic computing technologies used during different eras of human civilization starting from 3000 BC to world war. The Fürstenallee campus houses the research centers such as Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Cooperative Computing and Communication Laboratory (C-Lab) and Software quality lab (S-lab).

    Scientific Centers of the University

  • Center for Optoelectronics and Photonics Paderborn (CeOPP)
  • Heinz Nixdorf Institute (HNI)
  • Institute for Lightweight Design with hybrid systems (ILH)
  • Institute of Polymer Materials and Processes (PMP)
  • Competence Centre for Sustainable Energy Technology (KET)
  • Paderborn Institute for Scientific Computation (PaSCo)
  • Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²)
  • Centre for Educational Research and Teacher Education (PLAZ)
  • The following Collaborative Research Centers of the German Research Foundation (DFG) are established at Paderborn University:

  • SFB 614 - Self-optimizing mechanical engineering systems
  • SFB 901 - On The Fly Computing
  • SFB / TR TRR 30 - Process-integrated manufacturing of functionally graded structures based on coupled thermo-mechanical phenomena
  • SFB / TRR 142 - Customized nonlinear photonics: from basic concepts to functional structures
  • Faculties

    Paderborn University consists of five faculties:

    I Faculty of Arts and Humanities

    Department of English and American Studies; Department of Educational Sciences; Department of Protestant Theology; Department of German Studies and Comparative Literary Studies, History Department; Department of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Catholic Theology, Department of Art, Music, Textiles; Department of Media Studies; Department of Romanic Languages

    II Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

    Department of Management; Department of Taxation, Accounting and Finance; Department of Business Information Systems; Department of Economics, Department of Business and Human Resource Education; Department of Law..They offer range of programs for International students in a convenient way.

    III Faculty of Science

    The faculty of Science has three departments: Department of Physics; Department of Chemistry; Department of Sports and Health. The department of Physics offers Master of Science and Doctoral degree programs in English and is fully accredited by ASIIN. The research topic specializes in fabrication, characterization, spectroscopy, and applications of semiconductor nanostructures, optical communication, quantum computing and the theoretical understanding and modeling of the underlying physical phenomena.

    IV Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

    Since the founding of Paderborn University in 1972, the university's mechanical engineering program has been continually evolving as a center for educating a new generation of high-performing engineers, as well as a hub of top-notch research; half a million Euro per professor per year in research allocations and leading participation in two collaborative research centers are just two of the most visible signs of our involvement. In addition, a variety of multifaced cooperations between Mechanical Engineering departments and local companies help to promote long-term innovation in the proud tradition of German industry.


    The current research topics within the College of Mechanical Engineering are:

  • Mechatronics
  • New Rail Technology Paderborn (NBP) l RailCab
  • Collaborative Research Group (Sonderforschungsbereich – SFB) 614 “Self-Optimizing Systems in Mechanical Engineering“
  • Collaborative Research Group (SFB) Transregio 30 “Creation of Graded Structures on the Basis of Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Phenomena”
  • Lightweight Construction Using High-Strength Materials
  • New Joining Technologies
  • ViProSim: Center of Competence for Virtual Prototyping and Simulation
  • Strategic Planning and Innovation Management
  • Development and Modeling of Production Processes
  • Electromechanical Drivetrain Systems
  • Direct Manufacturing Research Center – DMRC
  • Institute for Lightweight Design with Hybrid Systems (ILH)
  • Public Safety & Security Processes and Systems
  • Process Engineering Paderborn
  • V Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology; Department of Computer Science; Department of Mathematics

    Computer Science Department

    The Computer Science department of Paderborn University has a strong international research reputation. A ranking recently published by the Association for Computing Machinery placed the department's Software Engineering the 16th best in the world, and top in Germany. The most recent German CHE ranking placed Paderborn's CS department among the top four CS departments in Germany. The Department's partnerships with locally and globally operating IT companies such as Siemens, Wincor Nixdorf, and SD&M as well as with the strong regional mechanical engineering industry in embedded systems, gives the students the unique opportunity of getting to know prospective employers even before they graduate.

    Electrical Engineering Department

    Typical fields of activities for graduated electrical engineers are leading and executive positions in electrical and electronic industry, computer industry, communication techniques, automation engineering, energy supply industry, automotive and aerospace industry and also in scientific.

    Staff

    The department of Philosophy is led by Professor Ruth Hagengruber

    References

    University of Paderborn Wikipedia