Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Not to be confused with University of Kaiserslautern-Landau.

Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
TypePublic research university
Active1970[1]–January 1, 2023
Budget€ 208.7 million[2]
ChancellorStefan Lorenz[3]
PresidentArnd Poetzsch-Heffter[3]
Academic staff
2,418[4]
Administrative staff
233[4]
Students14,869[4]
Location
Kaiserslautern
,
Rhineland-Palatinate
,
Germany
Websitewww.uni-kl.de

Technical University of Kaiserslautern (German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, also known as TU Kaiserslautern or TUK) was a public research university in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

On January 1, 2023, the university was merged with the Landau campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau into the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, or Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) in German.

There are numerous institutes around the university, including two Fraunhofer Institutes (IESE and ITWM), the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI SWS), the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Institute for Composite Materials (IVW) and the Institute for Surface and Thin Film Analysis (IFOS), all of which cooperate closely with the university.[5]

TU Kaiserslautern was organized into 12 faculties.[6] Approximately 14,869 students are enrolled at the moment.[7] The TU Kaiserslautern is part of the Software-Cluster along with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Saarland University. The Software-Cluster won the German government's Spitzencluster competition, the equivalence to the German Universities Excellence Initiative for clusters.[8][9]

  1. ^ "History".
  2. ^ "Zahlen und Fakten" (PDF). Technische Universität Kaiserslautern. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b "University Leadership".
  4. ^ a b c "Facts and Figures".
  5. ^ "Institutes and Research Centres". www.uni-kl.de. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Faculties".
  7. ^ "TU Kaiserslautern".
  8. ^ Internetredaktion, Redaktion: BMBF LS5. "Software-Cluster – BMBF Spitzencluster". Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung – BMBF Spitzencluster (in German). Retrieved 8 October 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "Software-Cluster | Europas leistungsstärkstes Netzwerk von Unternehmen, Ausbildungs- und Forschungseinrichtungen im Bereich der Software-Entwicklung" (in German). Retrieved 8 October 2019.