The University of Wuppertal (''Universität Wuppertal'') is a German scientific institution, located in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

, in the state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

, Germany. The university's official name in German is ''Bergische Universität Wuppertal'', or ''BUW''. It was founded in 1972. In 2014/15, approx. 20,000 students were enrolled in a wide range of subjects with many interdisciplinary linkages between a total of 7 faculties.

Organization

*Division A: Humanities and Cultural Studies *Division B: Schumpeter School of Business and Economics *Division C: Mathematics and Natural Sciences *Division D: Architecture, Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Safety *Division E: Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Media Technology *Division F: Design and Art *Division G: Education and Social Sciences

Campus

The main building of the University of Wuppertal is located in the suburb of

Elberfeld Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929. History The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "''elverfelde''" was in a docu ...

on Grifflenberg. The university now has 3 campuses: * Campus Grifflenberg (main campus) in Elberfeld, Wuppertal * Campus Freudenberg in Elberfeld, Wuppertal * Campus Haspel in Unterbarmen, Wuppertal All three campuses house specific parts of the

University Library of Wuppertal The University Library of Wuppertal (german: link=no, Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, abbreviated ''UBW'') is a central service institution of University of Wuppertal in Wuppertal, Germany. The main building at main campus ''Grifflenberg'' hold ...

, the main library at ''Campus Grifflenberg'' holds five specific libraries. From 2004 until 2010, the University of Wuppertal was home to the second

supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...

at a German university. ALiCEnext, the supercomputer, was designed as a cluster and consisted of 512 so-called Blades. ALiCEnext was used in the field of elementary particle physics, applied computer science, astro-particle physics and experimental high energy physics.

Notable professors

The university employs more than 250 professors (as of 2014). Notable people who have taught in Wuppertal are: *

Bazon Brock Bazon Brock (born Jürgen Johannes Hermann Brock, 2 June 1936) is a German art theorist and critic, multi-media generalist and artist. He is considered a member of Fluxus. He was a professor of aesthetics at the Hochschule für bildende Künste ...

, art theorist *

Gerd Faltings Gerd Faltings (; born 28 July 1954) is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic geometry. Education From 1972 to 1978, Faltings studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received his PhD in mathema ...

, mathematician *

Lev Kopelev Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev (russian: Лев Залма́нович (Зино́вьевич) Ко́пелев, German: Lew Sinowjewitsch Kopelew, 9 April 1912, Kyiv – 18 June 1997, Cologne) was a Soviet author and dissident. Early ...

, writer and historian of literature *

Karl-Heinz Petzinka Karl-Heinz Petzinka (born 7 January 1956) is a German architect, and Rector of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He is known for office buildings in Düsseldorf and Berlin. He converted historic industrial buildings, and was responsible for the sect ...

, architect *

Dieter Vieweger Dieter Vieweger, a Biblical scholar and Prehistoric Archaeologist, was born in Chemnitz, East Germany in 1958. He studied Theology (Old Testament Studies) and Prehistoric Archaeology in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main. After that he held a number of ...

, archaeologist * Paul J. J. Welfens, economist (current)

Notable alumni

Christian Boros Christian Boros (born 1964) is a German advertising agency founder and art collector, who owns an art gallery in a former bunker in Berlin. Early life Christian Boros was born in Zabrze, Poland in 1964. His family moved from Poland to Cologne, W ...

(born 1964), German advertising agency founder and art collector * Godela Habel, abstract painter * Walter Heidenfels, industrial designer

Awards and rankings

International rankings

Shanghai Ranking placed the University of Wuppertal between 404th and 502nd overall as compared to other international collegiate programs. However, the Physics program in particular is ranked somewhat higher, being placed between the 101st and 150th places in 2013 and between 151st and 200th in 2014. The ''

Times Higher Education World University Rankings The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' (often referred to as the THE Rankings) is an annual publication of university rankings by the ''Times Higher Education'' (THE) magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli ...

'' placed the University of Wuppertal in the 501–600th bracket in its World University Rankings 2020, and 201+ in the European Teachings Rankings 2019. In 2016, CWUR ranked University of Wuppertal as the 909th best university overall within its list of top 1000 international universities. In 2017 its place raised to 844th in the same list.

National rankings

At the

CHE ranking The ''CHE University Ranking'' (german: CHE Hochschulranking) is an annual ranking of German universities and colleges. It is a subject‐specific, multidimensional system aimed at providing information for students, with its main emphasis on te ...

, which evaluated more than 300 universities in the German-speaking world on the basis of the judgments of more than 250,000 students, University of Wuppertal was awarded three times. In 2011 the university reached the top group in eleven of the 13 categories. With a total score of 1.9, the Faculty of Economics was above the nationwide average of 2.6.

References

External links

Official website of Bergische Universität Wuppertal
(In German)

(In English) {{Authority control

Educational institutions established in 1972 1972 establishments in Germany