The Mainz University of Applied Sciences (
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: ''Hochschule Mainz''), is a 1971-founded university located in
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
,
Germany
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. The University of Applied Sciences Mainz consists of three faculties: School of Technology, School of Design and School of Business. The common feature of all fields of study is the practical orientation of the university, the short periods of study and the internationally orientated courses.
In 2009 the School of Business, the School of Engineering with the departments Geoinformatics and Surveying and the administration of the university moved to the new location "Campus". All other departments will move as well in the near future to the new location "Campus".
History and profile
![University of Applied Sciences Mainz Campus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/University_of_Applied_Sciences_Mainz_Campus.jpg)
The Mainz University of Applied Sciences stands in the long tradition of two educational institutions from the ''Electoral Mainz'' and the ''Grand Ducal Darmstadt''.
On the one hand the ''craftsman drawing school'' founded 1841 in Mainz (1933 renamed in ''State School of Arts and Crafts'', 1939 dissolved), whose origin can be seen in the 1757 founded ''Electoral Academy of Painting and Sculpture''.
On the other hand, the ''Grand Ducal State Construction School'' founded in 1876 in Darmstadt (1933 renamed in the ''State Building School''), in 1936 relocated from Darmstadt to Mainz as Adolf-Hitler-Building School.
After the Second World War, the ''Staatsbauschule und Landeskunstschule'' was officially reopened on October 3, 1946, in the Auditorium Maximum of
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...
as the succession institution of the ''State Building School'' and the ''State School of Arts and Crafts''.
In 1971 the University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Palatinate was founded. In the year of 1996 the Mainz University of Applied Sciences was re-established as an independent university with three faculties: School of Engineering, School of Design and School of Business.
At the Mainz University of Applied Sciences a wide variety of study programs is offered, for example in
architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
,
civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...
, geospatial and surveying, real estate project management,
interior design
Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordina ...
,
communication design
Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media communicate with people. A communication design approach is not only concerned with developing the message in addition to the ...
, media design, technical building management, and
economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...
(e.g. business management, international business, business law, career Integrating economics, economic computer science).
Teaching and Research
Degree Programs
These study programs are divided into the three following faculties:
* School of Engineering
* School of Design
* School of Business
The faculties are also divided in separate courses of studies:
The faculty of Engineering offers:
* Architecture
* Civil Engineering
* Geoinformatics & Surveying
The faculty of Design offers:
* Communication Design
* Media Design
* Interior Architecture
The faculty of Business offers:
* Business administration & international business
* Business law
* Information management
At the time of summer semester 2008, all graduate programs at the University of Applied Sciences were converted on the
Bologna Process to the international
bachelor and
master degrees.
Institutes at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences
*i3mainz
:Institute for spatial information and surveying technology.
*ai-mainz
:Institute for Architecture Mainz.
*iS-mainz
:Institute for sandwich technology - Mainz.
*Img
:Institute for media design.
*Design lab Gutenberg
:Institute as an interface between research and teaching of communication design.
*IUH
:Institute for entrepreneurial action.
*IFAMS
:Institute for applied management science and social entrepreneurship.
*FGKU
:The Research Group Municipal and Environmental Economics (FGKU).
Faculties and departments
![Mainz University of Applied Sciences Location Campus Sept 2016](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Mainz_University_of_Applied_Sciences_Location_Campus_Sept_2016.jpg)
Location Campus
Lucy-Hillebrand-Straße (Bretzenheim)
* School of Engineering with the departments
Geoinformatics and Surveying
* School of Business consisting of the departments
business administration
Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...
,
business law and
information management
Information management (IM) concerns a cycle of organizational activity: the acquisition of information from one or more sources, the custodianship and the distribution of that information to those who need it, and its ultimate disposal throug ...
Location Holzstraße (city center)
* School of Technology with the departments
Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...
,
Civil Engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...
* School of Design with the departments
Communication Design
Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media communicate with people. A communication design approach is not only concerned with developing the message in addition to the ...
, Media Design and
Interior Architecture
Services
Library
The library is currently situated at the two locations: Campus and Holzstraße. The libraries at these locations provide the media for each faculty situated there: economics at the location at Campus; engineering and design at the location Holzstraße.
The libraries provide books, journals, electronic media and videos for the each subject areas taught at the University of Applied Sciences. In addition, it offers daily and weekly newspapers, general reference books etc. The inventory is as a rule freely accessible to everyone. Exceptions are CDs, DVDs, videos, DIN standards.
AStA
The Mainz University of Applied Sciences has also an
AStA.
The General Students' Committee (German: Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss) or AStA, is the acting executive board and the external representing agency of the (constituted) student body at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences. It is therefore considered the student government and student representative organization. The AStA is separating in following sectors: administration, office, finance, executive board, university policy, international subjects, culture, light and sound, public relation, social matters, sport, traffic and directorate. They have an International Consultant for the special needs of foreign students. Furthermore, they offer social advice. The AStA also organize parties for the first year students and for the whole University.
See also
*
Fachhochschule
A ''Fachhochschule'' (; plural ''Fachhochschulen''), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts ...
*
List of colleges and universities
This is a list of lists of universities and colleges.
Subject of study
* Aerospace engineering
* Agriculture
* Art schools
* Business
* Chiropractic
* Engineering
* Forestry
* Law
* Maritime studies
* Medicine
* Music
* Nanotechnology
* Osteopa ...
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Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
References
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1971 establishments in West Germany
Educational institutions established in 1971
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Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany
Buildings and structures in Mainz
Organisations based in Mainz