Reutlingen University
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Reutlingen University is a university of applied sciences
in Reutlingen
in the southern German
state of Baden-Württemberg
. Enrollment stands at about 4,000 students, a quarter of whom are international and exchange students. Reutlingen University's campus sits on the southwestern edge of Reutlingen
, close to recreation and sport areas (including the city soccer
stadium). Two bus lines serve the campus, and the town center is a 20-minute walk away. Two neighborhood centers are each a five-minute walk from campus and the dormitories, featuring shopping centers, banks, and doctors.
The university offers undergraduate and graduate
programs in the main fields of:
Reutlingen University offers Master's Degrees in:
and development are carried out in several institutes on campus. Research and development projects supported by state and federal ministries, and also by the European Union
, are carried out in cooperation with industry - in particular with small- and medium-size enterprises
. By this means the institutes make contributions to the innovative ability of German industry and provide topical relevance to students. Research is focused mainly in the following areas:
Institute for Applied Research (IAF)
Institute for Applied Research in Automation (IFA)
ESB-Research Institute
SEFEX (Seminars for the Exporting Industry) offers seminars over one or several days on special aspects of international business. These are specially designed to meet the needs of small- to medium-size enterprises
. University teachers with international experience organize the seminars and deal with the fundamental principles. External lecturers from the business world guarantee a practical orientation and up-to-date information.
ZIM offers systematic part-time training for professionals in international trade. The program can be taken in part or as a whole. It works to a large extent with the study materials of the part-time MBA program of the European School of Business
. There are no formal prerequisites for participation in this program. On successful completion, participants are awarded a certificate. Under certain circumstances, participants in the program can go on to study at the Distance Learning University of Switzerland
, where they can earn an academic degree.
The OBS program is a business retraining program for economists and engineers who have come to Germany from the ex-Soviet Union
. These migrants have completed an academic degree and have work experience which is often very different from what is usual in the German market. The aim of the OBS courses is to remove these obstacles and to adapt the participants to professional requirements in Germany. To achieve this, it also includes trainee programs in German companies.
IMI (the International Management Institute) is designed for managers and specialists from Eastern Europe
and from emerging and developing countries. It provides these people with further training in international business and assists in setting up international business academies in these countries. IMI takes on contracts from a number of German and international organizations.
Five universities enjoy major partnerships with Reutlingen University, sending students to and from all departments and in some cases offering special courses on Reutlingen's campus: Swinburne University of Technology
(Hawthorn
/Melbourne, Australia), Xi'an University of Technology (Xi'an, China), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico), Kettering University
(Flint, Michigan
), and Valparaiso University
(Valparaiso, Indiana
). Valparaiso University also sends a resident professor to teach and facilitate the program.
The International Office (German
Akademisches Auslandsamt) is the major link in Reutlingen for domestic and international students, as well as for academic staff, regarding exchange programs and cooperation agreements with foreign universities and institutions. In addition to its core activities, such as creating and maintaining new study-abroad
opportunities for students, the International Office coordinates events such as study-related excursions and company visits, field trips, cinema and international evenings, and receptions.
The services offered by the International Office include the following:
and Catholic
Student Ministry (ekhg) offers workshops about how to develop and improve the social skills one needs when studying, in one's career, and in one's private life. They attempt to find and live by modern forms of Christian
faith, and offer help and advice on both academic and personal matters. The ekhg supports student groups and initiatives, offers help, advice, and companionship in emergencies and personal crises, and arranges contact with German families for foreign students and faculty members. The ekhg is facilitated by the Protestant and Catholic churches.
The University's Computing Center (German
Rechenzentrum) operates a series of central servers and a large number of computer labs via a high-speed gigabit
network. Altogether, approximately 1600 networked workstations are available to students on campus, as well as campus-wide wireless access.
The University Library
holds around 200,000 books and 350 regular periodicals. In addition, a number of specialized databases, 10,000 e-journals, and 4000 ebooks can be accessed on the campus network. The library also provides space for independent study for about 90 readers. The main holdings of older material are literature on textile-related subjects from the 19th to the first half of the 20th century, books that are held by few other German libraries. The textile collection is kept up to this day, though the emphasis has shifted from textile technology to fashion design and textile marketing. Further important subjects are economics, educational studies, psychology, computer science, natural sciences, and German language and literature.
Building 1 (Betriebshalle) houses a unique and comprehensive array of textile
machinery used for teaching purposes. The large laboratories for Mechanical Engineering
and Chemistry
are also located in this building.
The Mensa (Refectory
and Cafeteria
) is a central meeting point on campus. In addition to coffee and soft drinks, there is a wide range of small snacks, as well as warm dishes and salads during weekday lunchtime. The same building also houses a bookstore and a branch office of the health insurance
company AOK, which provides student insurance.
The Student Office (German
Studierendenbüro) is a central office for student services, including help with accommodation, changes of address, international student ID cards, sports on campus, reduced ticket prices for local events and sports, and so on.
, the city of Reutlingen, and the textile industry. The school was renamed in 1891 and became the Technical College for Spinning, Weaving, and Knitting.
In 1908, the Technical college received state recognition and changed its name once more to the State Technical College for the Textile Industry. Two years later, the State Testing and Examination Authority for Textiles was founded in Reutlingen.
In 1967, Mechanical Engineering
was added to the State Technical College, and in 1971, the College received official recognition as a Fachhochschule
(University of Applied Sciences). In the Department of Business Studies, the first course in International Business began. A year later, the business course "Fertigungswirtschaft" (Production Management) enrolled its first students.
Work began on the new Hohbuch campus in 1975, and the Fachhochschule moved there in 1977. The old buildings in the center of town were handed over to the police force, and parts of the original equipment from the Weaving School and other documentation were placed in the Industrial Museum. In 1979, the "Europäisches Studienprogramm für Betriebswirtschaft" (ESB
), with partner schools in London
and Reims
, enrolled its first students.
Today's Building 2, home to the School of Applied Chemistry and University Administration, opened in 1983, and in 1984, the first students entered Automation Technology and Business Information Science classes. The same year, the Export Academy Baden-Württemberg was founded at the Fachhochschule with a postgraduate degree course in International Marketing.
The largest building on campus, Building 1 (Betriebshalle) opened in 1987 by the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg
with space for Reutlingen University's technology departments. The degree course in Electronic Engineering
began in 1989. The latest degree courses, Mechatronics
and Media/Communication Information Technology
, opened their doors in 2003. In full accordance with European agreements
, all degree courses switched in 2003 to international Bachelor's and Master's qualifications.
Since its latest restructuring in autumn 2001, the University has had 7 schools or departments (Fakultäten), each offering at least one, and in some cases several, degree programs. Reutlingen University has adopted the ‘Bologna Model
’ of the EU in its essential features, including the use of the English designations "Bachelor of..." and "Master of..." for the degrees it awards. This means that the traditional German university degree "Diplom
..." is being phased out. As of 2003, all new students have been enrolled in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs.
In mid-2008, Reutlingen University merged all three of its business schools (European School of Business
, School of International Business, and Production Management) into one school under the European School of Business name.
Fachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
in Reutlingen
Reutlingen
Reutlingen is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of April 2008, it has a population of 109,828....
in the southern German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
state of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
. Enrollment stands at about 4,000 students, a quarter of whom are international and exchange students. Reutlingen University's campus sits on the southwestern edge of Reutlingen
Reutlingen
Reutlingen is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of April 2008, it has a population of 109,828....
, close to recreation and sport areas (including the city soccer
SSV Reutlingen
SSV Reutlingen 05 is a German association football club from Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg.- History :The club was founded as FC Arminia Reutlingen and was re-named SV Reutlingen 1905 in 1910. The club fused with 1...
stadium). Two bus lines serve the campus, and the town center is a 20-minute walk away. Two neighborhood centers are each a five-minute walk from campus and the dormitories, featuring shopping centers, banks, and doctors.
The university offers undergraduate and graduate
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
programs in the main fields of:
- International business (the university's ESB Reutlingen offer single and dual degree undergraduate and MScMSC- Computers:* Mario Strikers Charged* Microsoft Common Console Document, file for the Microsoft Management Console* Microelectronics Support Centre* Microsoft Corporation* MIDI Show Control* Message Sequence Chart...
/MBA programs with business schools in various countries) - Information and organization (informaticsInformatics (academic field)Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...
and production management) - Technologies (chemistryChemistryChemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, textileTextileA textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...
design/technology, and engineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
).
Schools & Degree Programs
The University has 5 schools with Bachelor's and Master's Degree Programs:- INF: School of Informatics (Bachelor of Science)
- ESB: ESB Reutlingen (Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts)
- AC: School of Applied Chemistry (Bachelor of Science)
- TEC: School of Technology (Bachelor of Engineering)
- TD: School of Textiles & Design (Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Arts)
Reutlingen University offers Master's Degrees in:
- ESB: International Management (taught in English combined with 6 countries)
- ESB: Distance Learning Course International Marketing (taught in German)
- ESB: International Marketing (taught in German)
- ESB: International Business Development (taught in German and English)
- ESB: International Accounting and Taxation (taught in German and English)
- ESB: International Business (Bachelor/Master programme, taught in English in the 1st year, later German & English)
- ESB: Production Management (taught in German)(Industrial Engineering)
- ESB: Logistics Management (taught in German and English)(Industrial Engineering)
- INF Business Information Management (taught in German)
- INF Computer Science in Media and Communication (taught in German)
- AC Technical Polymers (taught in German)
- AC Bio- and Process Analytics (taught in German)
- AC Environmental Studies (joint degree with University of Applied Science Nürtingen)
- TEC Mechanical Engineering (taught in German)
- TEC Mechatronics (taught in German)
- TD Textile Technology / Textile Management (taught in German)
- TD Textile Design/Fashion Design / Transportation Interior Design (taught in German)
Center for Applied Research
Applied researchApplied research
Applied research is a form of systematic inquiry involving the practical application of science. It accesses and uses some part of the research communities' accumulated theories, knowledge, methods, and techniques, for a specific, often state, business, or client driven purpose...
and development are carried out in several institutes on campus. Research and development projects supported by state and federal ministries, and also by the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
, are carried out in cooperation with industry - in particular with small- and medium-size enterprises
Mittelstand
Mittelstand refers to small and medium-sized enterprises in German-speaking countries, especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Economic and business historians have been increasingly giving Mittelstand companies more and more credit for Germany's economic growth in the beginning of the 20th...
. By this means the institutes make contributions to the innovative ability of German industry and provide topical relevance to students. Research is focused mainly in the following areas:
Institute for Applied Research (IAF)
- Process analysis, control, and optimization
- Clothing technology, quality management, technical textiles
- Renewable resources, polymerPolymerA polymer is a large molecule composed of repeating structural units. These subunits are typically connected by covalent chemical bonds...
materials - Interface analysis and surface technology
Institute for Applied Research in Automation (IFA)
- Production Automation and Sensor Systems (PASS) focusing mainly on image processingImage processingIn electrical engineering and computer science, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame; the output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image...
, roboticsRoboticsRobotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, structural disposition, manufacture and application of robots...
, telematicsTelematicsTelematics typically is any integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT...
, signal processingSignal processingSignal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...
, and driverless transportation systemsDriverless carAn autonomous car, also known as robotic or informally as driverless, is an autonomous vehicle capable of fulfilling the human transportation capabilities of a traditional car. As an autonomous vehicle, it is capable of sensing its environment and navigating on its own... - CAD/CAM in Design and Simulation, innovationInnovationInnovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...
management, benchmarkingBenchmarkingBenchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost...
and energy technologyEnergy technologyEnergy technology is an interdisciplinary engineering science having to do with the efficient, safe, environmentally friendly and economical extraction, conversion, transportation, storage and use of energy, targeted towards yielding high efficiency whilst skirting side effects on humans, nature...
ESB-Research Institute
- Innovation in business and enterprises
- Implications of emerging knowledge society
- Processes and consequences of globalizationGlobalizationGlobalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
- Cooperation with partner universities of International Partnership of Business Schools (IPBS)
Export Academy Baden-Württemberg
The Export-Akademie offers a large number of programs for international business which do not lead to academic degrees. Most of these courses are taught or supervised by the teaching staff of the ESB Reutlingen. The Export-Akademie consists of the following departments: SEFEX (Seminars for the Exporting Industry), ZIM (a certificate course for export managers), OBS (a retraining program by the Otto Benecke Trust), and IMI (the International Management Institute).SEFEX (Seminars for the Exporting Industry) offers seminars over one or several days on special aspects of international business. These are specially designed to meet the needs of small- to medium-size enterprises
Mittelstand
Mittelstand refers to small and medium-sized enterprises in German-speaking countries, especially in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Economic and business historians have been increasingly giving Mittelstand companies more and more credit for Germany's economic growth in the beginning of the 20th...
. University teachers with international experience organize the seminars and deal with the fundamental principles. External lecturers from the business world guarantee a practical orientation and up-to-date information.
ZIM offers systematic part-time training for professionals in international trade. The program can be taken in part or as a whole. It works to a large extent with the study materials of the part-time MBA program of the European School of Business
European School of Business
The ESB Business School is the business school of Reutlingen University in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was founded in 1979; since 2008 the school is responsible for all business- and management-related degree programmes of the university - in addition to the former ESB programmes it also...
. There are no formal prerequisites for participation in this program. On successful completion, participants are awarded a certificate. Under certain circumstances, participants in the program can go on to study at the Distance Learning University of Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, where they can earn an academic degree.
The OBS program is a business retraining program for economists and engineers who have come to Germany from the ex-Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. These migrants have completed an academic degree and have work experience which is often very different from what is usual in the German market. The aim of the OBS courses is to remove these obstacles and to adapt the participants to professional requirements in Germany. To achieve this, it also includes trainee programs in German companies.
IMI (the International Management Institute) is designed for managers and specialists from Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
and from emerging and developing countries. It provides these people with further training in international business and assists in setting up international business academies in these countries. IMI takes on contracts from a number of German and international organizations.
International
Reutlingen University has a long tradition as a second home for international students; over a quarter of the students currently registered come from countries outside Germany. The university maintains over 100 partnership and cooperation agreements with universities around the world, overseen by the International Office.Five universities enjoy major partnerships with Reutlingen University, sending students to and from all departments and in some cases offering special courses on Reutlingen's campus: Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne University of Technology is an Australian public dual sector university based in Melbourne, Victoria. The institution was founded by the Honourable George Swinburne in 1908 and achieved university status in June 1992...
(Hawthorn
Hawthorn, Victoria
Hawthorn is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara...
/Melbourne, Australia), Xi'an University of Technology (Xi'an, China), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico), Kettering University
Kettering University
Kettering University is a university in Flint, Michigan, offering degrees in engineering, math, science, and business. The campus is located along the Flint River on property that used to be the main manufacturing location for General Motors...
(Flint, Michigan
Flint, Michigan
Flint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...
), and Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University, known colloquially as Valpo, is a regionally accredited private university located in the city of Valparaiso in the U.S. state of Indiana. Founded in 1859, it consists of five undergraduate colleges, a graduate school, a nursing school and a law school...
(Valparaiso, Indiana
Valparaiso, Indiana
Valparaiso is a city in and the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, United States. The population was 31,730 at the 2010 census, making it the 2nd largest city in Porter County.-History:...
). Valparaiso University also sends a resident professor to teach and facilitate the program.
The International Office (German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
Akademisches Auslandsamt) is the major link in Reutlingen for domestic and international students, as well as for academic staff, regarding exchange programs and cooperation agreements with foreign universities and institutions. In addition to its core activities, such as creating and maintaining new study-abroad
Study abroad
Studying abroad is the act of a student pursuing educational opportunities in a country other than one's own. This can include primary, secondary and post-secondary students...
opportunities for students, the International Office coordinates events such as study-related excursions and company visits, field trips, cinema and international evenings, and receptions.
The services offered by the International Office include the following:
- European and international study-abroad programs for incoming and outgoing students
- Information about degree programs at Reutlingen University, admissions requirements, application and registration procedures, validation of first degrees (for graduate applicants)
- Support for outgoing Reutlingen students, as well as incoming international students, lecturers, and guests on campus
- Information about admission requirements, deadlines and application procedures for periods abroad including study semesters, internship semesters, language courses, and degree theses
- Scholarships and other types of funding for study periods and internships (DAADGerman Academic Exchange ServiceThe German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation....
, Fulbright, Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, InWEnt gGmbH and others) - Coordination of the awarding of LIFELONG LEARNING and ERASMUS scholarships; information about the EU's LEONARDO DA VINCI program
- Organization of events and excursions via the international circle of InWEnt gGmbH
- Health insurance, visa and residence permit requirements
- International examinations and qualifications such as TOEFLTOEFLThe Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL , evaluates the ability of an individual to use and understand English in an academic setting....
, APIELAdvanced Placement AwardsThe College Board offers several awards to select students who take Advanced Placement exams.The term "award" is perhaps misleading, as no benefit is awarded to the recipient except the title itself.-AP Scholar Designations:...
, GMATGraduate Management Admission TestThe Graduate Management Admission Test is a computer-adaptive standardized test in mathematics and the English language for measuring aptitude to succeed academically in graduate business studies. Business schools use the test as a criterion for admission into graduate business administration...
, GREGraduate Record ExaminationThe Graduate Record Examinations is a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for many graduate schools in the United States, in other English-speaking countries and for English-taught graduate and business programs world-wide...
, DSHDeutsche Sprachprüfung für den HochschulzugangThe DSH is a language proficiency test required to study at German higher education institutions....
, etc. - Special language courses, including German as a Foreign Language, Business German, and pre-semester intensive German courses at Reutlingen University
- Assistance with accommodation for international students from partner universities
Campus Facilities
The ProtestantEvangelical Church in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
and Catholic
Roman Catholicism in Germany
The German Catholic Church, part of the worldwide Catholic Church, is under the leadership of the Pope, curia in Rome, and the German bishops. The current president of the conference is Robert Zollitsch, the archbishop to Freiburg, the country's second largest diocese with 2.07 million Catholics...
Student Ministry (ekhg) offers workshops about how to develop and improve the social skills one needs when studying, in one's career, and in one's private life. They attempt to find and live by modern forms of Christian
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
faith, and offer help and advice on both academic and personal matters. The ekhg supports student groups and initiatives, offers help, advice, and companionship in emergencies and personal crises, and arranges contact with German families for foreign students and faculty members. The ekhg is facilitated by the Protestant and Catholic churches.
The University's Computing Center (German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
Rechenzentrum) operates a series of central servers and a large number of computer labs via a high-speed gigabit
Gigabit
The gigabit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage. The prefix giga is defined in the International System of Units as a multiplier of 109 , and therefore...
network. Altogether, approximately 1600 networked workstations are available to students on campus, as well as campus-wide wireless access.
The University Library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
holds around 200,000 books and 350 regular periodicals. In addition, a number of specialized databases, 10,000 e-journals, and 4000 ebooks can be accessed on the campus network. The library also provides space for independent study for about 90 readers. The main holdings of older material are literature on textile-related subjects from the 19th to the first half of the 20th century, books that are held by few other German libraries. The textile collection is kept up to this day, though the emphasis has shifted from textile technology to fashion design and textile marketing. Further important subjects are economics, educational studies, psychology, computer science, natural sciences, and German language and literature.
Building 1 (Betriebshalle) houses a unique and comprehensive array of textile
Textile
A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...
machinery used for teaching purposes. The large laboratories for Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
and Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
are also located in this building.
The Mensa (Refectory
Refectory
A refectory is a dining room, especially in monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminaries...
and Cafeteria
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...
) is a central meeting point on campus. In addition to coffee and soft drinks, there is a wide range of small snacks, as well as warm dishes and salads during weekday lunchtime. The same building also houses a bookstore and a branch office of the health insurance
Health insurance
Health insurance is insurance against the risk of incurring medical expenses among individuals. By estimating the overall risk of health care expenses among a targeted group, an insurer can develop a routine finance structure, such as a monthly premium or payroll tax, to ensure that money is...
company AOK, which provides student insurance.
The Student Office (German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
Studierendenbüro) is a central office for student services, including help with accommodation, changes of address, international student ID cards, sports on campus, reduced ticket prices for local events and sports, and so on.
History
The history of Reutlingen University goes back to the School of Weaving established in 1855 by the Kingdom of WürttembergWürttemberg
Württemberg , formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....
, the city of Reutlingen, and the textile industry. The school was renamed in 1891 and became the Technical College for Spinning, Weaving, and Knitting.
In 1908, the Technical college received state recognition and changed its name once more to the State Technical College for the Textile Industry. Two years later, the State Testing and Examination Authority for Textiles was founded in Reutlingen.
In 1967, Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
was added to the State Technical College, and in 1971, the College received official recognition as a Fachhochschule
Fachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
(University of Applied Sciences). In the Department of Business Studies, the first course in International Business began. A year later, the business course "Fertigungswirtschaft" (Production Management) enrolled its first students.
Work began on the new Hohbuch campus in 1975, and the Fachhochschule moved there in 1977. The old buildings in the center of town were handed over to the police force, and parts of the original equipment from the Weaving School and other documentation were placed in the Industrial Museum. In 1979, the "Europäisches Studienprogramm für Betriebswirtschaft" (ESB
European School of Business
The ESB Business School is the business school of Reutlingen University in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was founded in 1979; since 2008 the school is responsible for all business- and management-related degree programmes of the university - in addition to the former ESB programmes it also...
), with partner schools in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and Reims
Reims
Reims , a city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris. Founded by the Gauls, it became a major city during the period of the Roman Empire....
, enrolled its first students.
Today's Building 2, home to the School of Applied Chemistry and University Administration, opened in 1983, and in 1984, the first students entered Automation Technology and Business Information Science classes. The same year, the Export Academy Baden-Württemberg was founded at the Fachhochschule with a postgraduate degree course in International Marketing.
The largest building on campus, Building 1 (Betriebshalle) opened in 1987 by the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg
Politics of Baden-Württemberg
The Politics of Baden-Württemberg takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Baden-Württemberg. Since 1948 politics...
with space for Reutlingen University's technology departments. The degree course in Electronic Engineering
Electronic engineering
Electronics engineering, also referred to as electronic engineering, is an engineering discipline where non-linear and active electrical components such as electron tubes, and semiconductor devices, especially transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, are utilized to design electronic...
began in 1989. The latest degree courses, Mechatronics
Mechatronics
Mechatronics is the combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer engineering, software engineering, control engineering, and systems design engineering in order to design, and manufacture useful products. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of engineering, that is...
and Media/Communication Information Technology
Electronic media
Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form...
, opened their doors in 2003. In full accordance with European agreements
Bologna process
The purpose of the Bologna Process is the creation of the European Higher Education Area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe, in particular under the Lisbon Recognition Convention...
, all degree courses switched in 2003 to international Bachelor's and Master's qualifications.
Since its latest restructuring in autumn 2001, the University has had 7 schools or departments (Fakultäten), each offering at least one, and in some cases several, degree programs. Reutlingen University has adopted the ‘Bologna Model
Bologna process
The purpose of the Bologna Process is the creation of the European Higher Education Area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe, in particular under the Lisbon Recognition Convention...
’ of the EU in its essential features, including the use of the English designations "Bachelor of..." and "Master of..." for the degrees it awards. This means that the traditional German university degree "Diplom
Diplom
A Diplom is an academic degree in the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and a similarly named degree in some other European countries including Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland , Greece, Hungary, Russia, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Ukraine...
..." is being phased out. As of 2003, all new students have been enrolled in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs.
In mid-2008, Reutlingen University merged all three of its business schools (European School of Business
European School of Business
The ESB Business School is the business school of Reutlingen University in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was founded in 1979; since 2008 the school is responsible for all business- and management-related degree programmes of the university - in addition to the former ESB programmes it also...
, School of International Business, and Production Management) into one school under the European School of Business name.