The Ruhr University (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.

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 science at the same time. Currently, approximately 29,000 students (2004, down from 35,000 the year before due to introduction of fees) are enrolled, and the university employs some 6,500 staff (of which almost 400 are professors), making it the ninth biggest university in Germany (as of 2003). The former prime minister of the State Saxony, Kurt Biedenkopf, was director of the university from 1967 to 1969.

Organization

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These are the 20 faculties in which the university is divided into:

• 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

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• List of colleges and universities
• Bochum

External links

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• Ruhr-Universität Bochum Website

Universities and colleges in Germany

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