RWTH Aachen University

RWTH Aachen University
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
MottoZukunft denken[1]
Motto in English
Thinking the Future
TypePublic
Established10 October 1870; 154 years ago (1870-10-10)
Budget€ 1.108 billion[2]
RectorUlrich Rüdiger [de]
Academic staff
6,264[2]
Administrative staff
2,979[2]
Students47,078[2]
Location
Aachen
,
North Rhine-Westphalia
,
Germany

50°46′40″N 6°04′41″E / 50.77778°N 6.07806°E / 50.77778; 6.07806
Affiliations
Websiterwth-aachen.de
SuperC, landmark of RWTH Aachen and the central service building for students

RWTH Aachen University (German: [ˌɛʁveːteːˌhaː ˈʔaːxn̩]), in German Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen,[a] is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study programs, it is the largest technical university in Germany.

RWTH Aachen in 2019 emerged from the final of the third federal and state excellence strategy. The university will be funded as a university of excellence for the next seven years. RWTH Aachen was already part of the federal and state excellence initiative in 2007 and 2012.

Since 2007, RWTH Aachen has been continuously funded by the DFG and the German Council of Science and Humanities as one of eleven (previously nine) German Universities of Excellence for its future concept RWTH 2020: Meeting Global Challenges and the follow-up concept The Integrated Interdisciplinary University of Science and Technology: Knowledge, Impact, Networks, also receiving grants for associated graduate schools and clusters of excellence.[6] The university regularly accounts for the highest amount of third-party funds among all German universities, placing first per faculty member and second overall in the most recent survey from 2018.[7]

RWTH Aachen is a founding member of the CESAER association of universities of science and technology in Europe, and IDEA League, a strategic alliance of five leading universities of technology in Europe,[8] as well as its German counterpart TU9. It is also a member of DFG and the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network.

  1. ^ "Corporate Design". RWTH Aachen. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Facts and Figures". RWTH Aachen. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  3. ^ Geuna, Aldo (1999). "Patterns of university research in Europe". In Gambardella, Alfonso; Malerba, Franco (eds.). The Organization of Economic Innovation in Europe. Cambridge University Press. pp. 367–390. ISBN 0-521-64303-1.
  4. ^ Geuna, Aldo (1999). The Economics of Knowledge Production: Funding and the Structure of University Research. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 126. ISBN 1-84064-028-6.
  5. ^ Herzog, Laura Mae Jacqueline (2020). Shin, Jung Cheol; Kehm, Barbara M (eds.). Micro-Pollutant Regulation in the River Rhine: Cooperation in a Common-Pool Resource Problem Setting. Springer. p. 276. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4975-7. ISBN 978-3-030-36769-5.
  6. ^ "Excellence Strategy". Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Drittmitteleinnahmen und Drittmittel je Professorin und Professor der Universitäten". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Who We Are". Retrieved 13 July 2019.


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