Facts and Information
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
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Subject areas featured in the ranking
- Architecture (Last update 2019)
- Biology / Bioscience (Last update 2018)
- Business Administration (Last update 2020)
- Chemistry (Last update 2018)
- Civil and Environmental Engineering (Last update 2019)
- Computer Science (Last update 2018)
- Dentistry (Last update 2018)
- Electrical / Information Engineering (Last update 2019)
- English / North American Studies (Last update 2019)
- Geography (Last update 2018)
- Geoscience (Last update 2018)
- 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 2018)
- 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 2018)
- Physics (Last update 2018)
- Political Science (Last update 2018)
- Psychology (Last update 2019)
Basic information
Kind of Institution and funding body
University, public
Year of foundation
1870
Total number of Students
45,514
Students at this campus
45,514
Semester contribution
285.02 €
Tuition fees
no data
Students by area of study
Medicine, Health Science
6.4%
Natural Sciences, Mathematics
16%
Law, Economic and Social Sciences
6.8%
Humanities, Languages
5%
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)
65.7%
Other studies
0%
Students by type of degree pursued
Bachelor's degree
55.5%
Master's degree
32.1%
Teacher qualification degree
4.9%
Pre-Bologna degrees
5.9%
Other types of degrees
1.6%
Central services
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Special features regarding the library
The library system consists of the main library and decentralised specialist libraries; Specialisations in the field of Engineering and Natural Sciences; High proportion of electronic media (books, journals, databases); Extensive courses and guidance on academic resources (research) and work tools (delivery administration programmes); Patent and standards centre with specialised courses (order searches); Extensive and differentiated options for academic publishing (organised repository of the RWTH, open access, bibliometry, research data).
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Foreign language courses
There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Turkish, Arabic, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, German as a foreign language.
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Special features regarding university sports
The university offers its own sports programme. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. The students of the RWTH Aachen may participate in all sports programmes of the NRW institutions of higher education. 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, with its 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 2021: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education