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Type
  
Public

Budget
  
€ 105 million (2013)

Administrative staff
  
~ 3.200 (2015)

Total enrollment
  
20,141 (2014)

Founded
  
1 August 1972

Established
  
1972

Academic staff
  
935 (2013)

Students
  
21.052(WS 2015/16)

Phone
  
+49 202 4390

Principal
  
Lambert T. Koch

University of Wuppertal

Address
  
Gaußstraße 20, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany

Similar
  
University of Duisburg‑Essen, Ruhr University Bochum, University of Münster, Witten/Herdecke University, RWTH Aachen University

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The University of Wuppertal (Universität Wuppertal) is a German scientific institution, located in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The university, the full German name of which is Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW), was formed in 1972 and is located in the city of Wuppertal, within the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In 2014/15 it had almost 20,000 students in a wide range of subjects with many interdisciplinary linkages in 7 faculties:

  • Division A: Humanities and Cultural Studies
  • Division B: Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
  • Division C: Mathematics and Natural Sciences
  • Division D: Architecture, Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Safety
  • Division E: Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Media Technology
  • Division F: Design and Art
  • Division G: Education and Social Sciences
  • The main building of the BU Wuppertal is located in the suburb of Elberfeld on Grifflenberg and is a massive, cut honeycomb concrete purpose. The university now has 3 campuses:

  • Campus Grifflenberg (main campus) in Elberfeld, Wuppertal
  • Campus Freudenberg in Elberfeld, Wuppertal
  • Campus Haspel in Unterbarmen, Wuppertal
  • All three campuses hold specific parts of the University Library of Wuppertal, the main library at Campus Grifflenberg holds five specific libraries.

    From 2004 until 2010, the University of Wuppertal had the second supercomputer at a German university. ALiCEnext, the supercomputer, is designed as a cluster and consists of 512 so-called Blades. ALiCEnext used in the field of elementary particle physics, applied computer science, astro-particle physics and experimental high energy physics.

    As hydraulic glass elevator at the university in wuppertal


    Notable professors

    The university employs more than 250 professors (as of 2014). Notable people who have taught in Wuppertal are:

  • Bazon Brock, art theorist
  • Gerd Faltings, mathematician
  • Lev Kopelev, writer and historian of literature
  • Peter Ulrich, economist
  • Dieter Vieweger, archaeologist
  • Paul J. J. Welfens, economist (current)
  • Notable alumni

  • Godela Habel, an abstract painter
  • Walter Heidenfels, industrial designer
  • International Rankings

    The University of Wuppertal has received consistently low rankings in global surveys. For example, the online academic review site Shanghai Ranking placed the University between 404th and 502nd overall as compared to other international collegiate programs. However, the Physics program in particular is ranked somewhat higher, being placed between the 101st and 150th places in 2013 and between 151st and 200th in 2014.

    In the CHE Excellence Ranking the University was placed in a pan-European group of about 100 colleges, which have strong research departments with an international orientation for PhD and Master's students in the fields of economics, psychology, and political science.

    National Rankings

    In the journal German Economic Review's initial assessment, research activities in 2008 received a B in productivity.

    In the national founding ranking, it was named best original site in Germany three times.

    Because of efforts to innovative in the field of graphics cards, the University was named a "CUDA Research Center" by Nvidia.

    At the end of 2014, the University was awarded the Wuppertal business award in the category of "City Marketing Award" for their national importance in research and teaching.

    References

    University of Wuppertal Wikipedia