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Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Remarks
This University is also featured in the U-Multirank world university rankings.
Subject areas featured in the ranking
- Architecture (Last update 2022)
- Biology / Bioscience (Last update 2021)
- Business Administration (Last update 2020)
- Chemistry (Last update 2021)
- Civil and Environmental Engineering (Last update 2022)
- Computer Science (Last update 2021)
- Dentistry (Last update 2021)
- Education Science (Last update 2022)
- Electrical / Information Engineering (Last update 2022)
- Geography (Last update 2021)
- Geoscience (Last update 2021)
- German Language and Literature (Last update 2022)
- Industrial Engineering (Last update 2020) - Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
- Industrial Engineering (Last update 2020) - Fakultät für Bauingenieurwesen
- Industrial Engineering (Last update 2020) - Fakultät für Maschinenwesen
- Industrial Engineering (Last update 2020) - Fakultät für Georessourcen und Materialtechnik
- Mathematics (Last update 2021)
- Mechanical / Materials / Process Engineering (Last update 2022) - Fakultät 4 - Fakultät für Maschinenwesen
- Mechanical / Materials / Process Engineering (Last update 2022) - Fakultät 5 - Fakultät für Georessourcen und Materialtechnik
- Medicine (Last update 2021)
- Physics (Last update 2021)
- Political Science / Social Sciences (Last update 2021)
- Psychology (Last update 2022)
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Basic information
- Kind of Institution and funding body
- University, public
- Year of foundation
- 1870
- Total number of Students
- 47,362
- Students at this campus
- 47,362
- Semester contribution
- 300.19 €
- Tuition fees
- no data
Students by area of study
- Medicine, Health Science
- 6.2%
- Natural Sciences, Mathematics
- 16%
- Law, Economic and Social Sciences
- 7.6%
- Humanities, Languages
- 4.5%
- Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)
- 65.7%
- Other studies
- 0%
Students by type of degree pursued
- Bachelor's degree
- 56%
- Master's degree
- 33.1%
- Teacher qualification degree
- 4.5%
- Pre-Bologna degrees
- 5.6%
- Other types of degrees
- 0.8%
Central services
Opening hours central student counselling
Special features regarding the library
Services: The library system consists of the university library and decentralised specialist libraries; Main areas of focus in engineering and natural sciences; High proportion of electronic media (books, journals, databases); Extensive courses and guidance on academic resources (research) and work tools (literature management programs); Patent and standards centre with spec. offers (order searches); Extensive offers in acad. publishing (institutional RWTH repository, open-access); Bibliometrics services; Training and guidance on research data management
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Foreign language center and courses
There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, German as a foreign language, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Turkish, Arabic, Dutch, Korean.
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Special features regarding university sports
The university offers its own sports programme. The students of the RWTH Aachen may participate in all sports programmes of the NRW institutions of higher education. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. University sports in Aachen offers 2,500 instructed courses in over 90 sports and 14 events a year; illuminated running track, 1,060 m in length; 3 cage soccer artificial turf fields with flood lighting; 2 outdoor fitness facilities; multi-purpose beach sports facility, 6 courts; University fitness centre, with 65 endurance machines and 140 strength-training stations distributed across 1,050 m²; Own water-sports centre; RWTH and FH-Pausenexpress: 150 courses for 1,000 staff, 50 courses for 1,500 students; distinct health-oriented offers, numerous European partnerships.
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Last update 2023: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
