University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
TypePublic
EstablishedJanuary 1, 2023[1]
Academic staff
Over 1,500[2]
Total staff
Over 2,500[2]
StudentsOver 20,000[2]
Location
Kaiserslautern and Landau in der Pfalz
,
Rhineland-Palatinate
,
Germany
Websitehttps://rptu.de/

The University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (German: Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, also known as RPTU) is a public research university in Kaiserslautern and Landau in der Pfalz, Germany.

The university was formed by the merger of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and the Landau campus of the University of Koblenz and Landau on January 1, 2023.

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.[3]

RPTU is organized into 12 faculties.[4] Over 20,000 students are enrolled at the moment.[5] The RPTU 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.[6][7]

  1. ^ "History and present of RPTU".
  2. ^ a b c "Data and facts about the RPTU".
  3. ^ "Institutes and Research Centres". www.uni-kl.de. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Faculties".
  5. ^ "About the RPTU".
  6. ^ 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)
  7. ^ "Software-Cluster | Europas leistungsstärkstes Netzwerk von Unternehmen, Ausbildungs- und Forschungseinrichtungen im Bereich der Software-Entwicklung" (in German). Retrieved 8 October 2019.