Ansbach University (German: Hochschule Ansbach) is a

university of applied sciences A vocational university or university of applied sciences (UAS), less commonly called a polytechnic university is an institution of higher education and increasingly research that provides applied professional education and grants academic de ...

, involved in education and research. It is located in

Ansbach Ansbach ( , ; ) is a city in the Germany, German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Mittelfranken, Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränk ...

in the southern

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. It is located 2km from the Ansbach Residence. Since 2008 it has been a partner university of elite sport (

DOSB The German Olympic Sports Confederation (, DOSB) was founded on 20 May 2006 by a merger of the ''Deutscher Sportbund'' (DSB), and the ''Nationales Olympisches Komitee für Deutschland'' (NOK) which dates back to 1895, the year it was founded a ...

) and has many German national, Olympic, and world champions among its alumni.

Faculties

Faculty of Engineering Sciences

The following programs are available in this faculty: *

Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

with Business Studies (since autumn 1997) * Energy and Environmental

Systems Engineering Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their Enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering uti ...

(since autumn 2001) * Industrial

Biotechnology Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and Engineering Science, engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services. Specialists ...

(since autumn 2009) *

Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME also integrates the logica ...

(since autumn 2009) *

(since autumn 2009) * Smart Energy Systems (SES) * Sustainable Building Systems (SBS) * Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Systems (KIK)

Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences

The following programmes are available in this faculty: *

Business Administration Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. Overview The administration of a business includes the performance o ...

(since foundation) *

Business Informatics Business informatics (BI) is a discipline combining economics, the economics of digitization, business administration, accounting, internal auditing, information technology (IT), and concepts of computer science. Business informatics centers arou ...

(since autumn 2001) *

Multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

and

Communication Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

(since autumn 2002) * International Management for Top Athletes (since summer 2006) * Field-

Journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journ ...

(since autumn 2008) * Intercultural Management * Digital Marketing

Equipment and Projects

* member of the "High-Tech-Offensive Bayern" (

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) * sound studio * virtual television studio with ISP * 3D laboratory * laboratory for non-linear cutting * photographic studio * plastic laboratory (for CAM/CAD simulations) * installation of a "Center of Excellence for Plastics" *

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...

in IT-Management in cooperation with the Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences and the University of Applied Sciences Hof.

History

The

founded the university of applied sciences in the heart of

in 1996, at a site where soldiers had been trained for over 250 years. In the 18th century, a barracks was built by the

margrave Margrave was originally the Middle Ages, medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or a monarchy, kingdom. That position became hereditary in certain Feudal ...

's master builder. Around the start of the 20th century, the barracks had been replaced by the Hindenburg-Barracks, today's red-brick building. At first this building was used by the German

Reichswehr ''Reichswehr'' (; ) was the official name of the German armed forces during the Weimar Republic and the first two years of Nazi Germany. After Germany was defeated in World War I, the Imperial German Army () was dissolved in order to be reshaped ...

and

Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the German Army (1935–1945), ''Heer'' (army), the ''Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmac ...

until the end of World War II in 1945. The

United States Army The United States Army (USA) is the primary Land warfare, land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of th ...

used it for almost a half century until 1992 when the US Administration gave it to the

. The

invested over 50 million Euro in renovating the buildings and making it ready for academic use. All the buildings have been renovated with disability-friendly facilities.

Notable Students

There are about 90 German Olympic athletes studying on the campus. The most famous student is probably

Kati Wilhelm Kati Wilhelm (; born 2 August 1976 in Schmalkalden) is a German former professional Biathlon, biathlete. Like most German biathletes she is also a member of the German Armed Forces (''Bundeswehr'') with the rank of master sergeant (''Feldwebel#B ...

, a multiple Olympic and World Champion in

biathlon The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...

. Other notable sportspeople who have studied on the International Management programme at the University include biathlete

Michael Greis Michael Greis (; born 18 August 1976) is a German former biathlete. Career Greis first competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, finishing 15th and 16th in the 10 km sprint and 12.5 km pursuit events in the biathlon. ...

and ski jumper Severin Freund.

References

External links

* http://www.hs-ansbach.de official Homepage {{Authority control Universities and colleges in Bavaria

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Universities and colleges established in 1996 1996 establishments in Germany Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany