University of Karlsruhe Rankings and Quick Facts
Also known as Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and Fridericiana, and more recently it has become the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology or KIT.
| University world Ranking - Times 200 (UK) | = 171 |
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| University world Ranking - Jiaotong 500 (China) | 203 to 304 |
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| University world Ranking - Newsweek 100 (USA) | N/A |
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| European Rank (Jiaotong) | 81 to 123 |
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University of Karlsruhe Facts |
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| Students (Undergraduates / PG/ Total) | 18,245 |
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| Faculty / Staff | 275 / 3640 |
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| Established | 1825 |
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| Number of foreign students (if known) | Around 3,600 |
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| Affiliations | German Excellence Universities | ||
University of Karlsruhe Information
Perhaps one of the most prestigious universities in Germany for the study of science and technology, the university of Karlsruhe has seen some of the most intelligent people ever to grace the science field pass through it's corridors; these include Karl Benz (the inventor of the car), Heinrich Hertz (electricity) and Wilhelm Nusselt (thermodynamics); we shall come back to the famous alumni of Karlsruhe later.
Nowadays the university of Karlsruhe, which is located in the Baden-Württemberg area of Germany, has been remodelled to become the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and attracts around 18,000 and is overseen by the rector Horst Hippler.
The Karlsruhe institute of technology is split into eleven faculties; these offer study across the science and technology fields and in the field of economics; the departments are as follows:
Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Civil engineering, Geology, and Ecological Sciences
Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering
Faculty of Chemistry and Biology
Faculty of Computer Science
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Electrical engineering and Information Technology
Faculty of Humanities and Social sciences
Faculty of Mathematics
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Physics
As mentioned in the introduction the university of Karlsruhe has been one of Germanys leading centres of learning in the science and technology fields for many a year, in addition to Benz, Nusselt and Hertz, other prominent alumni include the Nobel prize winners Hermann Staudinger, Fritz Haber and Karl Ferdinand Braun (the inventor of the cathode ray tube that allowed for the invention of the television). Others of notes include Edward Teller (atomic bomb) and Wolfgang Gaede (the vacuum).
University of Karlsruhe Address
University of Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
Baden-Württemberg
Germany