The University of Flensburg (''Europa-Universität Flensburg'') is a

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in the city of Flensburg,

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. It was founded in 1994 and is the northernmost university in Germany. Although having full university status and the right to award PhDs, Europa-Universität Flensburg mainly offers courses in

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and other fields of the

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. The university holds German-Danish study courses in cooperation with the

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Academics

The university has 200 permanent employees and more than 400 visiting professors and lecturers. In the winter semester 2006/2007, the university received around 4,200 applications for places, but in the winter semester of the previous academic year the number was only 2,566. At the top of the applications in the winter semester 2006/2007 was the B.A. course in Teaching Science, 1977 applicants, followed by the B.A. course in International Management with 547 candidates. The B.A. course in Science of the Communication and Teaching is discontinued. The B.A. course in Teaching Science and B.A. course in International Management have since been the only undergraduate programmes that the university offers.

Flensburg Campus

Europa-Universität Flensburg shares a campus and some facilities with the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Flensburg). The infrastructure includes the ''Auditorium Maximum'' (called ''Audimax'') lecture hall, the central library, a broad park area, student residences, a

kindergarten Kindergarten is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school. Such institutions were originally made in the late 18th ce ...

, a sports and fitness center, the cafeteria ('' Mensa''), several small cafeterias and a student pub, a water sports center and a campus chapel. The main railway station is about one mile from the campus, the beach about 5 miles away.

Faculties

There are five faculties, numbered Department I to Department V, each of these is divided into a number of institutes.

References

External links

Europa-Universität Flensburg Website
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Academics

Flensburg Campus

Faculties

See also

References

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