The University of Luxembourg (

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: ''Université du Luxembourg'';

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: ''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 lan ...

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 rector 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

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. 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 COVID-19 pandemic in Luxembourg as part of the worldwide

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, the university switched to remote learning and later hybrid learning.

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 international students.

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

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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 Alex Biryukov is a cryptographer, currently a full professor at the University of Luxembourg. His notable work includes the design of the stream cipher LEX, as well as the cryptanalysis of numerous cryptographic primitives. In 1998, he develop ...

(Cryptographer) * Robert Brisart (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 (Philosopher) * Norbert von Kunitzki (

Economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

, businessman and university president) * Jean-Paul Lehners (Historian) * Jeanne Peiffer ( Historian of mathematics) * Martin Schlichenmaier (Mathematician) * Emma Schymanski (Chemist, environmental engineer) * François Tavenas (Engineer and academic) * Leon van der Torre (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 i ...

(Journalist, sociologist, historian, and former politician) * Volker Zotz (

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, 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 ...

(

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

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vice president)

References

External links

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