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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 2019)
- Biology / Bioscience (Last update 2021)
- Business Administration (Last update 2020)
- Chemistry (Last update 2021)
- Civil and Environmental Engineering (Last update 2019)
- Computer Science (Last update 2021)
- Dentistry (Last update 2021)
- Electrical / Information Engineering (Last update 2019)
- English / North American Studies (Last update 2019)
- Geography (Last update 2021)
- Geoscience (Last update 2021)
- German Language and Literature (Last update 2019)
- 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 2019) - Fakultät 4 - Fakultät für Maschinenwesen
- Mechanical / Materials / Process Engineering (Last update 2019) - 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 2019)
Basic information
- Kind of Institution and funding body
- University, public
- Year of foundation
- 1870
- Total number of Students
- 45,945
- Students at this campus
- 45,945
- Semester contribution
- 300.00 €
- Tuition fees
- no data
Students by area of study
- Medicine, Health Science
- 6.4%
- Natural Sciences, Mathematics
- 16.4%
- Law, Economic and Social Sciences
- 6.9%
- Humanities, Languages
- 4.9%
- Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)
- 65.4%
- Other studies
- 0%
Students by type of degree pursued
- Bachelor's degree
- 55.2%
- Master's degree
- 32.6%
- Teacher qualification degree
- 4.9%
- Pre-Bologna degrees
- 5.8%
- Other types of degrees
- 1.4%
Central services
Opening hours central student counselling
Special features regarding the library
A library system consisting of a central library and decentralised specialist libraries; focus on engineering and natural sciences; high proportion of electronic media (books, journals, databases); extensive range of courses and advice on scientific resources (research and work tools (literature management programs); patent and standards centre with specialised services (contract research); extensive range of services for scientific publishing (institutional repository of the RWTH, open-access); bibliometrics services; training and consulting services for research data management
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Foreign language center and courses
There is a foreign language centre. Offered languages: 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. The university sports centre in Aachen offers 2,500 instructed courses in over 90 sports and 14 events a year; illuminated Finn track, 1,060 m long; 3 cage soccer artificial turf fields with lighting; 2 outdoor fitness facilities; multifunctional beach sports facility, 6 courts; university fitness centre with 65 endurance and 140 strength training stations, 1,050 sqm training area;own aquatic sports centre; RWTH and FH break express: 150 courses for 1,000 staff, 50 courses for 1,500 students; distinctive health-oriented offers, numerous European partnerships.
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Last update 2022: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education