Germany
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
Nuremberg
Germany
Nuremberg
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg нь Герман улсад байрладаг улсын судалгааны их сургууль бөгөөд 1961 онд байгуулагдсан.
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The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (German: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, FAU) is a public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. The name Friedrich-Alexander is derived from the university's first founder Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and its benefactor Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
With around 40,000 students and over 275 degree programs in five faculties, FAU is one of the 15 largest universities in Germany. It is the third largest university in Bavaria. It was established in Bayreuth in 1742 and moved to Erlangen in 1743. FAU expanded to Nuremberg in 1961 and to Fürth in 2004. About two-thirds of students mainly use the campus in Erlangen and one-third use the one in Nuremberg.
In the winter semester of 2024/25, around 50 percent of the nearly 40,000 students were female, and around 9,200 came from abroad. As a comprehensive university, FAU offers a wide range of subjects across 272 degree programs, including 82 bachelor's degrees, 98 master's degrees, and 92 degrees leading to a state examination, such as teaching, law, or medicine (as of 2023). To reduce the risk of technology drain, the admission of scholarship holders from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) was initially suspended in 2023, but only temporarily. An exception is made for students who come to Germany with an additional scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
FAU is a member of the German Research Foundation DFG. Based on DFG funding, FAU has been one of the top ten universities in Germany for many years now. A total of 117.7 million euros in funding were approved in 2023. The university has seven DFG research groups and several graduate colleges. Due to numerous collaborations with other universities, colleges, and technical colleges in the region, Friedrich-Alexander University has outposts throughout northern Bavaria. The FAU Language Center enables students of all disciplines to obtain international language qualifications with UNIcert certification. FAU is a member of MedienCampus Bayern, the umbrella organization for media education and training in Bavaria.
The university was founded in 1742 as Academia Fridericiana in Bayreuth by Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. On February 21, 1743, it was granted university status by Charles VII. Alongside the universities in Altdorf and Würzburg, Friedrich University was the third university in the Franconian region. In November 1743, it was relocated to Erlangen and housed in the premises of the former Knight Academy on Erlanger Hauptstraße. From the outset, the entire traditional range of subjects—theology, law, medicine, and philosophy—was taught, although the number of students in the early days remained consistently below 200. The first chancellor of the institution, which had only modest resources at its disposal, was the physician Daniel de Superville.
In 1769, responsibility for the university fell to Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who provided significant support to the early university and therefore became the university's second namesake.
The Margrave of Ansbach-Bayreuth's privy councilor and Royal Prussian minister to the Franconian Circle, Karl Wilhelm, Baron Buirette von Oehlefeld (1724–1782), Lord of the Wilhelmsdorf Manor, bequeathed a foundation of over 20,000 guilders to the university in his will. As the arrangements for this had already been made with the Margrave, the latter awarded Buirette the highly coveted Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle.
After the city of Erlangen was transferred to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810, the university only narrowly managed to avoid closure – unlike the University of Nuremberg in Altdorf – because it was the only Bavarian state university to have a Lutheran theological faculty going forward. It was therefore indispensable for the training of Protestant theologians in the new state. The university remained Lutheran for a long time, but gradually lost its original Lutheran confessional character.
Even today, the Friedrich-Alexander University has only a Protestant theological department and no Catholic theological department. However, it is still possible to study Catholic religious education for teaching at elementary, secondary, and vocational schools, as a subject in educational studies, and as an elective for business educators. For this purpose, there are four chairs at the Nuremberg campus, which now belong to the Faculty of Philosophy, to which the Department of Theology has been affiliated.
In 1818, the margrave's castle became the property of the university.
Erlangen School is a term used to describe various academic schools at the University of Erlangen and beyond. In the 19th century, Erlangen theology was already a well-known movement of revivalist lay people and theologians, such as Christian Krafft and Karl Georg von Raumer.
In his inaugural lecture in 1872, mathematician Felix Klein, son-in-law of historian and founder of the Historical Department at the University of Erlangen Karl Hegel, developed a mathematical-geometric concept called the Erlangen Program, a method of characterizing geometries based on group theory and projective geometry that is still relevant today.
The 20th-century philosophical school around the constructivists Paul Lorenzen and Wilhelm Kamlah is called Erlangen constructivism or constructivism of the "Erlangen School".
The Erlangen School of Information Psychology (20th century) deals with work in the field of intelligence research.
A major part of FAU's campuses is in the city of Erlangen, the minor part in the neighbouring city of Nuremberg. Several minor facilities are located in Hof, Fürth, Bamberg, Pleinfeld or Ingolstadt. In sum, there are several hundred FAU properties in the Nuremberg metropolitan area.
In Erlangen, the university has two main sites: one in the city centre (North site) and the other in city's south (South site). To the east of the city is the so-called "Röthelheim Campus" with minor engineering and medical facilities. In addition, FAU currently has a large number of larger and smaller properties spread over the entire Erlangen city area. Besides the Erlangen Schloss, the university's Schlossgarten in the city centre is a main sight in Erlangen and very popular among students especially during summer term.
The university's administration (in the Erlangen Schloss), the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Theology and the Department of Law (as part of the Faculty of Law and Economics) are located at the North Site (both at Bismarckstraße/Schillerstraße) as well as the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital. Also in the city centre is the University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg. The Erlangen University Hospital is one of the biggest university hospitals in Germany.
The Faculty of Science (Erwin-Rommel-Straße/Staudtstraße) and the Faculty of Engineering form FAU's South site.
The University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg is the library system of the Friedrich-Alexander University and is a regional library for the region of Middle Franconia. As an academic universal library, it offers its users a wide range of specialist literature from all faculties and a variety of services. With approximately 5.4 million volumes, it is Bavaria's largest library outside the state capital Munich. Large parts of the media stock are also accessible in interregional lending. The University Library is a member of the Bavarian Library Network (Bibliotheksverbund Bayern).
The Erlangen-Nuremberg library system is structured as a two-tier system, comprising four central libraries and 15 branch libraries. These libraries collectively manage a vast collection of resources distributed across approximately 200 locations. Among these central libraries, the Main Library and the Technical and Natural Sciences Branch Library (TNZB) are situated in Erlangen, while the Economic and Social Sciences Library (WSZB) and the Educational Science Branch Library (EZB) are based in Nuremberg.
Within this collaborative library system, most branch libraries take on the responsibility of acquiring and maintaining their own collections. However, all these resources are consolidated and accessible through the University Library's online catalogue, known as OPACplus.
In February 2007, the senate of the university decided upon a restructuring into five faculties. Since October 2007, FAU consists of:
The following faculties were part of the university (sorted in the order in which they were founded):
In 1962, after lengthy debate, the Bavarian parliament decided to establish a Faculty of Engineering in Erlangen. The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen thus won against the city of Nuremberg, which, for decades, had been demanding the establishment of a college of engineering in Nuremberg. Since the expansive areas of building land required for this project were not available in the center of Erlangen, the foundations for a new university campus were laid in the south east of the town in 1964. The formal establishment of the Faculty of Engineering, then the seventh faculty at the university, took place in 1966. What was unique at the time was that the various engineering departments were subsumed, as a faculty, into the main university rather than constituting an independent university.
The Faculty of Engineering at FAU is a young educational and research institution. Since its foundation in 1966, the faculty has five departments and are as follows:
Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering, which is according to the Quantitative Ranking of Engineering Disciplines, the 10th best worldwide.
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science
The faculty has close connections both with other natural sciences and with traditional subjects at the university. The Faculty of Engineering currently concentrates on the following research fields:
Other university facilities:
FAU claims leadership in a number of research topics. The current eight such major research areas are:
The Excellence Initiative is sponsored by the German federal and state governments to promote science and research at German universities. It aims to promote cutting-edge research and to strengthen higher education and research in Germany to improve its international competitiveness as well as making top performers in academia and science visible.
As part of this initiative, FAU has been awarded with funding for several Excellence clusters. The former Excellence Cluster Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) received approximately 1.85 million euros of annual funding from 2006 to 2019. SAOT now acts as an interdisciplinary hub for research on photonics and optical technologies in Erlangen by providing an Education Program of Excellence for national and international doctoral candidates.
The former Cluster of Excellence 'Engineering of Advanced Materials and Processes' (EAM) was also established at FAU as part of the initiative and received a total of 70 million euros in funding from 2007 to 2019.
The contracts contributet significantly to the research funding of the university, including five new research buildings, permanent new technical facilities and research and teaching staff.
The current federal excellence strategy aims to support 70 clusters of excellence at 43 German universities with a total budget of 687 millionen euros for the next seven years, a mid-seven-figure sum of which will go to the new Cluster of Excellence "Transforming Human Rights" at FAU. The funding provides institutional support for the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg.
The Cluster of Excellence "Transforming Human Rights" aims to address the potential and the limits of human rights against the backdrop of the fundamental changes that are shaping our times.
The focus is on five megatrends:
These megatrends are changing human rights standards, institutions and practices. At the same time, human rights themselves have the potential to provide answers to these five megatrends.
Political scientist Kathrin Kinzelbach and legal expert Markus Krajewski are the co-spokespersons for the Cluster of Excellence.
FAU has contacts with approximately 500 universities all over the world, including many of the world's top universities like the University of Cambridge, Duke University, UCL, Imperial College London and many more.
FAU is, together with HU Berlin, the university with the most graduate colleges funded by the German Research Foundation. Furthermore, FAU is a member of a large number of international, interregional and regional networks for promoting young researchers, such as the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA), the German University Association for the Qualification of Early-Career Researchers in Germany (UniWinD) and the Committee for the Promotion of Young Talent at Bavarian Universities (BayAK).
FAU has received several awards for its work with young researchers, including the Henriette Herz Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for its FAUattract recruitment program. The FAUnext career program supports young researchers on their career path to becoming professors. In the Emerging Talents Initiative (FAUeti), young researchers can apply for internal university funding to further develop their research for the application process with external funding bodies such as the German Research Foundation. Furthermore, FAU supports its young scientists through various programs, including the ARIADNE program for the promotion of young female scientists, and a large number of collaborations with non-university institutions.
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