University of Stuttgart

Universität Stuttgart

Former names

| Stuttgart Institute of Technology
Type| Public
Established| 1829
Budget| EUR 420 million[1]
Chancellor| Jan Gerken
President| Wolfram Ressel

Academic staff

| 3,152[1]

Administrative staff

| 1,794[1]
Students| 27,686[2]
Undergraduates| 13.136[3]
Postgraduates| 7,309[3]

Doctoral students

| 1,682[3]
Location|

Stuttgart

Baden-Württemberg

Germany

Campus| Urban/Suburban
|u}}rs| Anthracite, Dark Blue (“Mittelblau”) & Light Blue |  |  |

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Affiliations| German Universities Excellence Initiative
PEGASUS
TU9
EUA
TIME
Website| www.uni-stuttgart.de

The University of Stuttgart (German: Universität Stuttgart) is a research university located in Stuttgart, Germany . It was founded in 1829 and is organized into 10 faculties. It is one of the oldest technical universities in Germany with highly ranked programs in civil, mechanical, industrial and electrical engineering. It is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable German institutes of technology. The university is especially known for its reputation in the fields of advanced automotive engineering, efficient industrial and automated manufacturing, process engineering, aerospace engineering and activity-based costing.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Organization
* 3 Ranking and reputation
* 4 Notable alumni
* 5 See also
* 6 Notes and references
* 7 External links

## History

Technische Hochschule Stuttgart 1929, art deco cast iron plaque medal to the 100th anniversary.

From 1770 to 1794, the Karlsschule was the first university in Stuttgart. Located in Stuttgart-Hohenheim, it has since 1818 been the University of Hohenheim and is not related to the University of Stuttgart, except for some joint activities.

What is now the University of Stuttgart was founded in 1829, and celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2004. Because of the increasing importance of the technical sciences and instruction in these fields, from 1876 the university was known as the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart (Stuttgart Institute of Technology). In 1900 it was awarded the right to grant doctoral degrees in the technical disciplines. The development of the courses of study at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart led to its renaming in 1967 to the present-day "Universität Stuttgart". With this change of name came along a built-up of new fields, such as history of science and technology and the social sciences, and the extension of existing ones, such as history and art history.

Since the end of the 1950s, a part of the university has been located in the suburb of Stuttgart-Vaihingen. Most technical subjects (computer science, engineering, etc.) are located in Vaihingen, while the humanities, the social sciences, architecture, and similar topics are still located in the city center campus.[citation needed]

## Organization

The university is divided into 10 faculties:[4]

* Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning
* Faculty of Civil- and Environmental Engineering
* Faculty of Chemistry
* Faculty of Energy-, Process- and Bio-Engineering
* Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
* Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy
* Faculty of Engineering Design, Production Engineering and Automotive Engineering
* Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
* Faculty of Humanities
* Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

* Mensa building at the main campus

* Campus at Vaihingen

* International Centrum at the University of Stuttgart

* Keplerstraße 11 ("K1", right) and 17 ("K2", left) in the city center

* Student Hall Pfaffenhof II

* The new "Raumfahrtzentrum Baden-Württemberg" in Vaihingen

## Ranking and reputation

Universität Stuttgart is consistently ranked among the world's top universities in various international ranking surveys such as the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education Supplement which ranks over 1000 universities worldwide. As of 2017, University of Stuttgart is ranked 79th in the world in the field of Engineering & Technology according to QS World University Rankings.[5] University of Stuttgart is one of the best universities in the fields of mechanical, aeronautical, and manufacturing engineering[6] (42nd worldwide and 3rd best in Germany) and has been ranked several times as one of the best engineering universities in Germany .[7]

## Notable alumni

* Gunnar Birkerts, architect
* Gustav Bauernfeind, German painter, illustrator and architect of Jewish origin
* Volker Beck
* Achilles Papapetrou
* Günter Behnisch, famous German architect
* Gottlieb Daimler, Germany's most famous engineer: The Inventor of "The Automobile" and co-founder (together with Carl Benz) of Mercedes-Benz
* Gerhard Ertl
* Max Eyth
* Gego
* Rudolf Haag, physicist
* Ernst Heinkel
* Rolf-Dieter Heuer
* Wunibald Kamm
* Heinz-Hermann Koelle
* Berthold Leibinger
* Fritz Leonhardt
* Michael Macht, former CEO of Porsche AG
* Wilhelm Maybach, famous German engineer and automobile designer
* Ulf Merbold
* Frieder Nake
* Ulrich Spiesshofer, CEO ABB Group
* Horst Störmer, physicist, Nobel prize winner
* Gerald Fredrick Töben
* Martin Winterkorn, former CEO of Volkswagen AG
* Martin Jetter, CEO of IBM Deutschland GmbH and IBM Japan, Ltd.
* Karl Ramsayer, German geodesist, pioneer of global and German flight navigation
* Hartmut Esslinger, Industry Designer, Apple Macintosh, Lufthansa, Windows XP, SAP Designer

## See also

* List of early modern universities in Europe
* Top Industrial Managers for Europe
* Forschungsinstitut für Kraftfahrwesen und Fahrzeugmotoren Stuttgart

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Zahlen & Fakten". https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ueberblick/wir_ueber_uns/zahlen_fakten/index.html. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
2. ↑ "Übersicht über die Zahl der Studierenden im Wintersemester 2016/2017". March 6, 2018. https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet/profil/dokumente/zahlen-archiv/ZS2016.pdf. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ueberblick/wir_ueber_uns/zahlen_fakten/statistik/zahlenspiegel/ZS2012.pdf
4. ↑ "Faculties & Institutes". https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/faculties-institutes/index.html. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
5. ↑ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017 - Engineering and Technology". Top Universities. March 3, 2017. https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2017/engineering-technology.
6. ↑ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Engineering - Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing". Top Universities. March 17, 2016. https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2016/engineering-mechanical.
7. ↑ "The Top 25 best Universities in Germany - engineering and beyond". Top Universities. http://www.topuniversities.com/forum/studying-abroad-general-discussion/top-25-best-universities-germany-engineering-beyond. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

## External links

* University of Stuttgart Website
* Partnership with The German University in Cairo

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Top International Managers in Engineering (T.I.M.E.)

Austria|

* TU Wien

Belgium|

* Faculté polytechnique de Mons
* Université catholique de Louvain
* Université libre de Bruxelles
* University of Liège
* Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Czech Republic|

* Czech Technical University in Prague

Denmark|

* Technical University of Denmark

Finland|

* Aalto University

France|

* Centrale Graduate School
* École Centrale de Lille
* Lyon
* Marseille
* Nantes
* Paris
* École Supérieure d'Électricité
* École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace
* ENSTA ParisTech
* École des Ponts ParisTech

Germany|

* RWTH Aachen University
* Berlin Institute of Technology
* Dresden University of Technology
* Technische Universität Darmstadt
* Technische Universität München
* University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
* University of Hannover

Greece|

* Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
* National Technical University of Athens

Hungary|

* Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Italy|

* Polytechnic University of Turin
* Politecnico di Milano
* University of Padua
* University of Trento

Norway|

* Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Poland|

* Wrocław University of Technology

Portugal|

* Instituto Superior Técnico

Russian Federation|

* Bauman Moscow State Technical University
* Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation
* Tomsk Polytechnic University

Spain|

* Comillas Pontifical University
* Polytechnic University of Valencia
* Polytechnic University of Catalonia
* Technical University of Madrid
* University of Seville

Sweden|

* Chalmers University of Technology
* KTH Royal Institute of Technology
* Faculty of Engineering (LTH), Lund University

Switzerland|

* École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
* ETH Zurich

Turkey|

* Istanbul Technical University

United Kingdom|

* Queen's University Belfast

* European University Association
* Networks of European universities
* European Society for Engineering Education
* European Federation of National Engineering Associations

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CESAER

* Aalborg
* Aalto
* Athens Polytechnic
* Ben-Gurion
* BUT
* BME
* Chalmers
* Community Université Grenoble Alpes
* CTU Prague
* EPFL
* ETH Zurich
* Gdańsk University of Technology
* Ghent
* Graz University of Technology
* INSA de Lyon
* IST
* ITU
* KIT
* KTH
* KTU
* KU Leuven
* Leibniz University Hannover
* Lund
* NOVA
* NTNU
* Paris-Saclay
* ParisTech
* Polytechnic University of Milan
* POLITO
* PUB
* PUT
* RTU
* RWTH Aachen
* Tallinn University of Technology
* Technion
* TU Berlin
* TU Braunschweig
* TU Darmstadt
* TU Delft
* TU Dresden
* TU Warsaw
* Tomsk
* TU Wien
* UCLouvain
* UPC
* UPM
* UPV
* UCD
* Porto
* Sheffield
* Strathclyde
* Stuttgart
* Surrey
* Twente

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