The University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (German: ''Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau'', also known as RPTU) is a

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Kaiserslautern Kaiserslautern (; ) is a town in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, 666 kilometers (414 m ...

and

Landau in der Pfalz Landau (), officially Landau in der Pfalz (, ), is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990), a long ...

, Germany. The university was formed by the merger of the

Technical University of Kaiserslautern Technical University of Kaiserslautern (German: ''Technische Universität Kaiserslautern'', also known as TU Kaiserslautern or TUK) was a public university, public research university in Kaiserslautern, Germany. On January 1, 2023, the univers ...

and the Landau campus of the

University of Koblenz and Landau The University of Koblenz and Landau () was a German public university located in Koblenz and Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate, which primarily focused on teacher education. After starting to reform its teacher education in the 1960s, Rhineland-Pa ...

on January 1, 2023. There are numerous institutes around the university, including two

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( and ITWM), the

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) is a computer science research institute co-located in Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern, Germany. The institute is chartered to conduct basic research in all areas related to the design, anal ...

(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. RPTU is organized into 16 faculties. About 17,000 students are enrolled at the moment. RPTU is part of the Software-Cluster along with the

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, the

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and

Saarland University Saarland University (, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major ...

. The Software-Cluster won the German government's ''Spitzencluster'' competition, the equivalence to the

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for clusters.

History

RPTU was founded on January 1, 2023 by the merger of TU Kaiserslautern and the university in Landau. The newly founded university was led by a dual presidential leadership consisting of the former president of the TU Kaiserslautern, Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, and the former vice-president of the Landau location, Gabriele Schaumann. Since the 1st of October 2024 Malte Drescher is president of the university.

Organization

Faculties

These are the 16 faculties in which the university is divided: *Architecture *

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

*Civil Engineering *

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

Electrical and Computer Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

*Education Sciences *Computer Science *Cultural and Social Science *Mechanical and Process Engineering *Mathematics *Natural and Environmental Sciences *

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

*Psychology *Spatial and Environmental Planning *

Social Sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

*Business Studies and Economics

Rankings

In the

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of 2024, the university is placed at 601-800 globally and 46-48 within the country.

Sports facilities

The university has a Sports Hall which includes facilities for badminton, gym, table tennis, etc. Running, hockey, basketball and football can be played in the accompanying sports grounds. There are further sports facilities in the Landau campus.

Associations and student initiatives

More than 80 student groups and initiatives are registered at the university. * Leo-Club Kaiserslautern – a youth organisation of

Lions Clubs International Lions Clubs International, is an international service organization, currently headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. , it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members (including the youth wing Leo) in more than 200 geographic ...

. * Karat Racing Team e.V. –

Formula Student Formula Student is a student engineering competition held annually. Student teams from around the world design, build, test, and race a small-scale formula style racing car. The cars are judged on a number of criteria. It is run by the Instit ...

team. * Bonding studentinitiative e.V. * AEGEE-Kaiserslautern – local group of the European Students' Forum, fostering intercultural exchange and cross-border communication and striving for European integration. * STEP e.V. – a non-profit organization to support foreign exchange of the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics * EMECS-thon – an embedded systems marathon open to all students from EMECS consortial universities and partner universities, where the participating teams have 48 hours to develop an embedded systems project from scratch. The event is carried out simultaneously in the universities of the EMECS consortium, as well as in several partner universities each year. * Muslimische Studierenden Gruppe Kaiserslautern – A non-profit group of University of Kaiserslautern Muslim students.

References

External links

Official website
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