The University of Luxembourg (

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: ''Université du Luxembourg'';

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: ''Universität Luxemburg'';

Luxembourgish Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; Luxembourgish: ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. As a standard form of t ...

: ''Universitéit Lëtzebuerg'') is a

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Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small land ...

History

The University of Luxembourg was founded in 2003 by combining four existing education and research institutes: the Centre universitaire, Institut supérieur d'études et de recherches pédagogiques, Institut supérieur de technologie, and Institut d'études éducatives et sociales. The university is the only public university in Luxembourg.

Description

The university has three campuses: the Belval Campus, the Kirchberg Campus, and the Limpertsberg Campus. The university is governed by a board of governors, a rector, and a university council. The current

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of the University of Luxembourg is Stéphane Pallage.

Academics

University of Luxembourg - Kirchberg Campus

The university offers fourteen

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, forty-two

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, and doctorates. Bachelor's degrees require a semester abroad. The university also offers sixteen vocational training and lifelong learning training courses. The university is

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. Courses are generally taught in two languages, being French and English or French and German. Some courses are taught in three languages and some courses are taught entirely in English. The university has three faculties, the Faculty of Science, Technology, and Medicine; the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance; and the Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, and three interdisciplinary centres, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust; the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine; and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. All the faculties offer baccalaureate, masters, doctoral, and vocational programs.

COVID-19 pandemic

During the

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as part of the worldwide

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, the university switched to remote learning and later

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Demographics

As of March 2021, the University of Luxembourg enrollment was 6,783 students, 950 doctoral candidates, 2,245 staff, 1,420 academic staff, and 283 professors. In 2021, the university had 4,858 had

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students and a student–staff ratio of 19. In 2021, 51% of students at the university were

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Rankings

In 2021, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the University of Luxembourg number 653 in Best Global Universities and number 227 in Best Global Universities in Europe. The ''

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'' ranked the University of Luxembourg 201–250 in their 2020 World University Rankings and 12 in their 2020 Young University Rankings. The

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, also known as the Shanghai Ranking, ranked the University of Luxembourg 601-700 in their 2020 rankings. The

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ranked the University of Luxembourg 907 in their 2020-2021 World University Rankings.

Research

In March 2021, the University of Luxembourg had 1,000 ongoing research projects and 114 Horizon 2020 projects. In 2020, university researchers produced 2,104 publications.

Notable people

The University of Luxembourg has more than 11,000 alumni.

Notable faculty

* Alex Biryukov (Cryptographer) *

Robert Brisart Robert Brisart (29 October 1953 – 25 February 2015, in Louvain-la-Neuve), was a Belgian philosopher. He was professor at the University of Luxembourg, and at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels. His works mainly focused on ...

(Philosopher) *

Emile Haag Emile Haag (born 24 July 1942) is a Luxembourgish historian, trade unionist and former principal of the Athénée de Luxembourg. Since 1987 he has been the national president of the confederation of government employees, a Luxembourgish trade union ...

(Historian, national president of the confederation of government employees) *

Dietmar Heidemann Dietmar Hermann Heidemann (1967) is a German philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Luxembourg. He is best known for his research on Kant and German idealism German idealism was a philosophical movement that emerged in Ge ...

(Philosopher) *

Norbert von Kunitzki Norbert von Kunitzki, (b. 1934 in Luxembourg died November 25, 2005 in a climbing accident in Vietnam), was a Luxembourgian expert economist, businessman and university president. Biography M. von Kunitzki was a student of Antwerp University and be ...

(

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, businessman and university president) *

Jean-Paul Lehners Jean-Paul Lehners (born 20 April 1948 in Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgish historian specialized in the field of global and demographic history. He is also involved in the study of human rights. Lehners is professor of global history a ...

(Historian) *

Jeanne Peiffer Jeanne Peiffer (born 20 August 1948 in Mersch) is a Luxembourg historian of mathematics. Contributions She deals with scientific journals in the 17th and 18th centuries, also from a scientific sociological point of view and with the aspect of the ...

( Historian of mathematics) *

Martin Schlichenmaier Martin Schlichenmaier is a German - Luxembourgish mathematician whose research deals with algebraic, geometric and analytic mathematical methods which partly have relations to theoretical and mathematical physics. Life and work In 1990 Sch ...

(Mathematician) *

Emma Schymanski Emma Schymanski (born Emma Craven) is chemist known for her work identifying unknown organic compounds, particularly pollutants, and is an advocate for open science. Education and career Schymanski graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemistry and a B. ...

(Chemist, environmental engineer) * François Tavenas (Engineer and academic) *

Leon van der Torre Leendert (Leon) van der Torre is a professor of computer science at the University of Luxembourg and head of the ''Individual and Collective Reasoning'' (ICR) group, part of the Computer Science and Communication (CSC) Research Unit. Leon van der T ...

(Computer scientist) *

Renée Wagener Renée Wagener (born 1962) is a journalist, sociologist, historian, and former politician in Luxembourg. She served for 10 years in the country's Chamber of Deputies as a member of The Greens. Early life and education Renée Wagener was born ...

(Journalist, sociologist, historian, and former politician) * Volker Zotz ( Philosopher, religious studies scholar,

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)

Notable alumni

Djuna Bernard Djuna Bernard (born 15 June 1992) is a Luxembourger politician and member of the Luxembourg's Green Party, Déi Gréng. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since December 2018, when she replaced Sam Tanson who was made Housing and Cu ...

( Luxembourger politician) * Amin Mekki Medani (Sudanese lawyer, diplomat, human rights and political activist) * Jean-Paul Pier (Mathematician) *

Jean-François Rischard Jean-François Rischard (born 2 October 1948) is an economist, and was the first European Vice President of the World Bank from 1998 to 2005. He lives in Paris, France. Early years Rischard was born in Luxembourg to Charles-Edouard Rischard and ...

(Economist,

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vice president)

References

External links

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