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Aristotelian University
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The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the sixth oldest and among the most highly ranked tertiary education institutions in Greece. It is named after the philosopher Aristotle, who was born in Stageira and it is the largest university in Greece and in the Balkans. Its campus covers 230,000 square metres in the centre of Thessaloniki, with additional educational, as of 2014, there is a student population of approximately 40,000 active students enrolled at the university and 2,366 faculty members. There are additionally 248 members of the Special Laboratory Teaching Personnel,213 members of the Special Technical Laboratory Personnel, the administrative staff consists of 400 permanent employees and 528 subcontractor employees that are contracted by the university. The language of instruction is Greek, although there are programs in languages and courses for international students, which are carried out in English, French, German. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was founded in 1925 during the premiership of Alexandros Papanastassiou and was legislated under Law 3341/14-6-25 and it was the second Greek university to be founded after the University of Athens, which was established in 1837. The university was built on top of the remains of what had once been the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, however, Smyrni was not part of Greece at the time and the plans fell through after the outcome of the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor. Nevertheless, in 1924, Alexandros Papanastassiou decided to found a university in Thessaloniki in order to boost the local economy and culture. The first stage of development ended with the foundation of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 1950, after this period, some of the aforementioned faculties were extended by integrating more departments. In more detail, the Departments of Pharmacy and Dentistry were founded in 1955 and 1959 respectively, moreover, the Faculty of Philosophy was expanded by integrating the Institutes of Foreign Languages. During the second stage the focal point of development was the Faculty of Engineering, at the beginning, this faculty constituted an independent institute also called the Polytechnic or Technical University. Therefore, for the first fifty years of its operation the Aristotle University consisted of two institutes which operated independently. Subsequently these two educational institutes where unified, the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering was split in two independent schools in 1976. Finally, during the stage of its development, new schools. Moreover, the university acquired a number of departments which operated in the past as independent institutes of Higher Education. During this period, the Faculty of Fine Arts was established, additionally, the School of Journalism and Mass Media Studies and the School of Physical Education and Sports Sciences were created as independent schools. These changes include the downgrade of some former Faculties into Schools or Departments, a former Jewish faculty was abolished 80 years before by the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas. This new faculty took in October 2015, her work on with leading professor Georgios Antoniou, on the University campus a monument commemorating the old Jewish cemetery was unveiled also in 2014
Aristotelian University
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Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki.
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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The gate of the university's Faculty of Engineering.
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Aerial view of central
Thessaloniki. On the right the Aristotle University's campus.
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COM*DTU
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The Technical University of Denmark, often simply referred to as DTU, is a university in Kongens Lyngby, just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmarks first polytechnic, DTU, along with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Eindhoven University of Technology and Technical University of Munich, is a member of EuroTech Universities Alliance. DTU was founded in 1829 as the College of Advanced Technology with the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, then a professor at the University of Copenhagen, the inspiration was the École Polytechnique in Paris, France which Ørsted had visited as a young scientist. The new institution was inaugurated on 5 November 1829 with Ørsted as its principal, the new colleges first home was two buildings in Studiestræde and St- Pederstræde in central Copenhagen. Although expanded several times, they remained inadequate and in 1890 a new building complex was inaugurated in Sølvgade in 1890, the new buildings were designed by the architect Johan Daniel Herholdt. In the 1920s space had once again become insufficient and in 1929 the foundation stone was laid for a new school at Østervold, completion of the building was delayed by World War II and it was not completed until 1954. From 1933 the institution was known as Danmarks tekniske Højskole. The formal name, Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, in 1960 a decision was made to move the College of Advanced Technology to new and larger facilities in Lyngby north of Copenhagen. They were inaugurated on 17 May 1974, on 23 and 24 November 1967 the University Computing Center hosted the NATO Science Committees Study Group first meeting discussing the newly coined term Software Engineering. The President of DTU is appointed by the university board, the president in turn appoints deans, and deans appoint heads of departments. Since DTU has no faculty senate, and since the faculty is not involved in the appointment of president, deans, or department heads, the area was previously home to the airfield Lundtofte Flyveplads. DTU was the subject of controversy in 2009 because the former director of the Department of Chemistry was a high-ranking member of Scientology. In relation to this, the university was accused of violating the principles of free speech by threatening to fire employees who voice their criticism of the institute director. On 7 April 2010, his successor was announced, at a department meeting, as Erling Stenby, shortly thereafter, the university management threatened Rolf W. Berg with dismissal for publicly criticizing the university. In November 2007 the Times Higher Education Supplement put the university as number 130 in their ranking of the universities of the world, in the The Worlds Most Innovative Universities 2015 ranking by Thomson Reuters, DTU is ranked, No. A student union at DTU is the student association Nul-kryds formed in 1947. Barrett, former CEO of Intel Jørgen Lindegaard, former CEO of the SAS Group Henrik O
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Main building in Lyngby.
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Technical University of Denmark
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Centrale Paris
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École Centrale Paris is a French institute for research and higher education in engineering and science. It is also known by its original name École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, founded in 1829, it is among the oldest and most selective grandes écoles in France. In 2015, École Centrale Paris merged with Supélec to form CentraleSupélec, the founding vision was to educate multidisciplinary engineers for the emerging industrial sector in France. The institution was offered to the French state in 1857 by its creator, École Centrale Paris is one of the Centrale Graduate Schools associated as the Groupe Centrale network with its sister institutions. It was a member of the TIME network among leading European engineering schools, and also a member of the UniverSud Paris. Initially located in the Hôtel de Juigné, the campus of the school was transferred to rue Montgolfier in 1884. Its current location neighbours the Parc de Sceaux, following the merger of the school with Supelec, now forming CentraleSupelec, the progressive move of the campus has started from Chatenay-Malabry to Gif-sur-Yvette. The entrance examination to the grandes écoles including École Centrale Paris is taken at the end of their second year, a small number of places is also reserved for students who have successfully completed a 3-year undergraduate program in a French university. The general engineering program at Centrale is multidisciplinary and typically lasts between 3 to 4 years, the curriculum is similar to those offered at other general engineering schools. All courses are taught in either French or English, during the first year, students are required to study several subjects in science, engineering, as well as social sciences. In the second year, students are given the option to choose elective courses, the first two years are also used to train students in various research, startup and industry projects. In the third year, students can choose to major in a particular field depending on their academic, upon graduation, students receive the degree of Diplôme dIngénieur along with the title of Ingénieur diplômé, which is more commonly called Ingénieur centralien. The school offers a range of specialized masters programmes in science. It also offers various Ph. D. programmes for holders of a masters degree, more than 200 doctoral candidates currently work in one of the eight laboratories of the school. The following is a non-exhaustive list of alumni of the school
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École Centrale Paris
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Gustave Eiffel, designed the
Eiffel Tower and the internal structure of the
Statue of Liberty in
New York
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Eidgenoessische Polytechnikum Zuerich
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ETH Zurich is a science, technology, engineering and mathematics university in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. ETH Zurich is consistently ranked among the top universities in the world, twenty-one Nobel Prizes have been awarded to students or professors of the Institute in the past, the most famous of whom was Albert Einstein. It is a member of the IDEA League and the International Alliance of Research Universities. ETH was founded in 1854 by the Swiss Confederation and began giving its first lectures in 1855 as a polytechnic institute and it is locally still known as Poly, derived from the original name Eidgenössische polytechnische Schule, which translates to Federal Polytechnic School. ETH is an institute, whereas the University of Zürich is a cantonal institution. In the beginning, both universities were co-located in the buildings of the University of Zürich, from 1905 to 1908, under the presidency of Jérôme Franel, the course program of ETH was restructured to that of a real university and ETH was granted the right to award doctorates. In 1909 the first doctorates were awarded, in 1911, it was given its current name, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule. In 1924, another reorganization structured the university in 12 departments, however, it now has 16 departments. ETH Zurich, the EPFL, and four associated research institutes form the ETH Domain with the aim of collaborating on scientific projects, ETH Zurich is ranked among the top universities in the world. Historically, ETH Zurich has achieved its reputation particularly in the fields of chemistry, there are 21 Nobel Laureates who are associated with ETH. The most recent Nobel Laureate is Richard F, heck who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2010. Albert Einstein is perhaps its most famous alumnus, in 2016, the QS World University Rankings placed ETH Zurich at 8th overall in the world. In 2015, ETH also ranked 6th in the world in Natural Sciences, ETH Zurich had an budget of 1.712 billion CHF in the year 2015 to support its cutting-edge research. For Swiss students, ETH is not selective in its admission procedures. Like every public university in Switzerland, ETH is obliged to grant admission to every Swiss resident who took the Matura, an applicant can be admitted to ETH even without any verifiable educational records by passing the comprehensive entrance exam. As at all universities in Switzerland, the year is divided into two semesters. Examinations are often held during examination sessions which are immediately before the beginning of the next semester, after the first year of study, bachelor students must pass a block examination of all courses taken in the first year, called the Basisprüfung. If the weighted average score is not sufficient, a student is required to retake the entire Basisprüfung which usually means having to re-sit the whole first year
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Polytechnikum in 1865
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
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ETH Zürich Zentrum
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Interior skylights in the main building
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The Royal Institute of Technology
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden, specialized in Engineering and Technology, that ranks highest in northern mainland Europe in its academic fields. The current King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf is its High Protector, the King of Sweden at the time, known in Sweden as Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, had prior to his crowning been Marshal of the French Empire, appointed by Napoleon Bonaparte. KTH Royal Institute of Technology is the best university of technology in northern Europe, with the exception in the area being the Technical University of Munich. The main campus buildings at Valhallavägen in Östermalm, by architect Erik Lallerstedt, were completed in 1917, the buildings and surroundings were decorated by prominent early 20th-century Swedish artists such as Carl Milles, Axel Törneman, Georg Pauli, Tore Strindberg and Ivar Johnsson. The older buildings on the campus were renovated heavily in 1994, while the original campus was large for its time, KTH very soon outgrew it, and the campus was expanded with new buildings. Today, KTH institutions and faculties are distributed across several campuses in Stockholm County, located in Flemingsberg, Haninge, Kista and Södertälje, beyond the ones in Östermalm. KTH, School of ICT, Kista offers education and research in all the areas which todays information society is based upon - from nano scale physics to the benefit of the end user, Kista is an educational environment with modern facilities, which are always open to the students. All courses are within ICT, creating a strong cohesion and an exchange over the educational programmes, Stockholm University’s computer science programmes are also located in Kista. Together, over 3000 students create an educational environment and a vibrant student life. KTH Kista is an international environment with teachers and students from all around the world. The Masters and postgraduate programmes offered by the school students from the worlds top universities. With companies such as Ericsson, Volvo, IBM, Tele2, TietoEnator, Microsoft, Intel and Oracle as neighbors, School of Technology and Health has a part of its activities in Flemingsberg. At KTH Flemingsberg the school courses in Medical Engineering and conducts research within the subject. KTHs activities in Flemingsberg started in 2002, since 2003, the school offers a Bachelor of Education in Medical Engineering, in collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet. In autumn 2008, a master of science in Medical Engineering started, Flemingsberg is an area of high academic density and one of northern Europes most important areas within biotechnology – both terms of research and industrial activities. Here are also Södertörn University and the Karolinska Institutet with over 10000 students and Novum Research Center, Flemingsberg is an area of strong growth. To meet the need for student housing more apartments are planned, in Haninge, students from two schools at KTH receive education – the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, ABE, and the School of Technology and Health, STH. Here, students study at undergraduate and master level in such as building engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering
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Main building in winter
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Royal Institute of Technology
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Main courtyard in summer
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KTH "Courtyard" ("borggården")
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Technical University of Athens
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The National Technical University of Athens, sometimes known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest higher education institutions of Greece and the most prestigious among engineering schools. It is named Metsovio in honor of its benefactors Nikolaos Stournaris, Eleni Tositsa, Michail Tositsas and Georgios Averoff and its traditional campus, located in the center of the city of Athens on Patision Avenue, features a suite of magnificent neo-classical buildings by architect Lysandros Kaftantzoglou. A suburban campus, the Zografou Campus, was built in the 1980s, NTUA is divided into nine academic schools, eight being for the engineering disciplines, including architecture, and one for applied sciences. Undergraduate studies have a duration of five years, admission to NTUA is highly selective and can only be accomplished through achieving exceptional grades in the annual Panhellenic Exams. It is a widely spread perception that the vast majority of each years Panhellenic Exams top students interested in the sciences, the university comprises about 700 of academic staff,140 scientific assistants and 260 administrative and technical staff. It also has about 8,500 undergraduates and about 1,500 postgraduate students, eight of the NTUAs Schools are housed at the Zografou Campus, while the School of Architecture is based at the Patision Complex. NTUA was established by decree on December 31,1836, January 21,1837. It began functioning as a vocational school to train craftsmen, builders. In 1840, due to its popularity and the changing socio-economic conditions in the new state. The courses were expanded and the institution was housed in its own building in Pireos Street, in 1843 a major restructuring was made. Three departments were created, Part-Time Vocational School Daily School A new Higher School of Fine Arts The new departments object was fine arts, the new department, which was later renamed School of Industrial and Fine Arts, rapidly evolved towards a major higher education institution. Tradition has it that referred to both technical professions and fine arts. Even today, the school maintains a school of architecture that is related to the School of Fine Arts. The name Polytechnnic came in 1862, with the introduction of new technical courses. This restructuring continued steadily until 1873, at the time, the school became overwhelmed by the plethora of students wanting to learn high technical skills, and this led to its moving to a new campus. In 1873 it moved to its new campus in Patision Street and was known as Metsovion Polytechnion after the birthplace of its benefactors who financed the construction of this campus. At the time, the campus in Patision Street was even partially incomplete and this is when the institute was recognized as a technical education facility by the state, which was a crucial step for its development, as it became accompanied to the countrys needs as it developed. In 1914, new schools were created and was officially named Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion went under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Works
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The historical Patision Street campus in a postcard of 1900.
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Seal of NTUA (
Prometheus Carrying Fire)
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The main facade of the Averof building today.
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View of the School of Mechanical Engineering.
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Chancellor of the National University of Ireland
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The constituent universities are for all essential purposes independent universities, except that the degrees and diplomas are those of the National University of Ireland with its seat in Dublin. In post-nominals, the abbreviation NUI is used for degrees from all the constituent universities of the National University of Ireland. Queens Colleges at Belfast, Cork, and Galway were established in 1845, in 1849 teaching commenced, the 1908 reforms created the National University of Ireland and a separate Queens University of Belfast. The Royal University was dissolved in 1909 and in 1910 Maynooth became a college of the NUI. In 1978 St. Angelas College, Sligo became affiliated to the NUI, in 1996 the National College of Art and Design became a recognised college of the NUI. These reforms also removed the prohibition on theology that had imposed on the National University. Since 1918 the universitys graduates have formed a constituency in parliamentary elections, in 1918 it was formed as a constituency for the UK House of Commons. After the first election Eoin MacNeill abstained from Westminster and sat in the first Dáil, the NUI graduates elected four TDs from 1921 until 1934 when the university constituencies were abolished by Fianna Fáil. Under the Constitution of Ireland, adopted in 1937, the graduates of the university elect three members of Seanad Éireann, all graduates that are Irish citizens are entitled to vote if on the universitys register of electors. An honorary degree does not give the entitlement to vote, the election is conducted by postal vote. The most recent election was in 2011, for the 24th Seanad, the chancellor is the notional head of the university, and constituent universities and recognised colleges have their own heads, which exercise most powers in practice. When the university was established in 1908 by Royal Charter, the first chancellor was appointed, all subsequent chancellors are elected by convocation, the chancellor is elected by graduates and staff whenever there is a vacancy. William Joseph Walsh Éamon de Valera T. K. Whitaker Garret FitzGerald Maurice Manning Within the university there is a faculty structure in operation in the constituent universities. †† The National College of Arts and Design and the Institute of Public Administration maintain linked to the National University of Ireland by being now colleges of University College Dublin, ‡ In accordance with the Universities Act 1997 graduates of the recognised college of St. +++ Since April 2009 the Senate of the National University of Ireland decided that medical graduates of RCSI Bahrain will be eligible to receive the NUI degrees of MB BCh BAO
Chancellor of the National University of Ireland
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The offices of the NUI, on
Merrion Square in Dublin
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National University of Ireland
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Technical University of Catalonia
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Polytechnic University of Catalonia, currently referred to as BarcelonaTech and commonly named just as UPC, is the largest engineering university in Catalonia, Spain. It also offers programs in disciplines such as mathematics and architecture. UPC is a university aiming at achieving the highest degree of excellence and has bilateral agreements with several top-ranked European universities. UPC is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network and it is also a member of several university federations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research and UNITECH. The university was founded in March 1971 as the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona through the merger of engineering and architecture schools founded during the 19th century. As of 2007 it has 25 schools in Catalonia located in the cities of Barcelona, Castelldefels, Manresa, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Terrassa, Igualada, Vilanova i la Geltrú, UPC has about 30,000 students and 2,500 professors and researchers. Recerca i Desenv. per a la Millora i Innov. de les Empreses CETpD-UPC -Tech, currently the award is presented bi-annually
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Barcelona North Campus
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Nexus building, in North campus of UPC
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UPC Library
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Technical University in Aachen
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RWTH Aachen University or Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 42,000 students enrolled in 144 study programs, the university maintains close links to industry and accounts for the highest amount of third-party funds of all German universities in both absolute and relative terms per faculty member. RWTH Aachen is a member of IDEA League, a strategic alliance of four leading universities of technology in Europe. The university is also a member of TU9, DFG and the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, in March, the prince chose to use the donation to found the first Prussian institute of technology somewhere in the Rhine province. Aachen finally won with a financing concept backed by the insurance company, groundbreaking for the new Polytechnikum took place on 15 May 1865 and lectures started during the Franco-Prussian War on 10 October 1870 with 223 students and 32 teachers. The unclear position of the new Prussian polytechnika affected the first years, polytechnics lacked prestige in society and the number of students decreased. In the same year, over 800 male students enrolled, World War I, however, proved a serious setback for the university. Many students voluntarily joined up and died in the war, the Third Reichs Gleichschaltung of the TH in 1933 met with relatively low resistance from both students and faculty. Beginning in September 1933, Jewish and Communist professors were systematically persecuted and excluded from the university, vacant Chairs were increasingly given to NSDAP party-members or sympathizers. The freedom of research and teaching became severely limited, and institutes important for the plans were systematically established. Briefly closed in 1939, the TH continued courses in 1940, on 21 October 1944, when Aachen capitulated, more than 70% of all buildings of the university were destroyed or heavily damaged. After World War II ended in 1945 the university recovered and expanded quickly, in the 1950s, many professors who had been removed because of their alleged affiliation with the Nazi party were allowed to return and a multitude of new institutes were founded. By the late 1960s, the TH had 10,000 students, with the foundation of philosophical and medical faculties in 1965 and 1966, respectively, the university became more universal. The newly founded faculties in particular began attracting new students, now, the average number of students is around 42,000, with about one third of all students being women. By relative terms, the most popular study-programs are engineering, natural science, economics and humanities, in December 2006, RWTH Aachen and the Sultanate of Oman signed an agreement to establish a private German University of Technology in Muscat. Professors from Aachen aided in developing the curricula for the currently five study-programs, in 2007, RWTH Aachen was chosen as one of nine German Universities of Excellence for its future concept RWTH2020, Meeting Global Challenges, earning it the connotation of being an elite university. Having won funds in all three lines of funding, the process brought RWTH Aachen University an additional funding of €180 million from 2007-2011. RWTH Aachen Universitys 620-acre campus is located in the part of the city Aachen
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SuperC, landmark of RWTH Aachen and the central service building for students
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RWTH Aachen University Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
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Main Building of the RWTH Aachen. It was built in 1870.
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"Red lecture hall" at the central campus
