University of Regensburg
History
Universität Regensburg, founded in 1962, is located on a modern campus at the southern edge of a historic city dating back to the Roman Ages. The university provides a broad variety of disciplines, a favorable student-teacher ratio and excellent facilities.
Originally designed as a regional university, it has developed into a renowned centre of teaching and research with a strong tradition in international cooperation. There are currently around 21,600 students enrolled at Universität Regensburg, including 1,640 international students (as of winter semester 2015/16).
Status
State university.
Governing team
- President.
- Three Vice-Presidents.
- Secretary and Financial Officer.
Grounds
Universität Regensburg is located on a campus of 150 hectares at the southern edge of the Old Town, which is only 15 minutes away by bus.
International programmes
- Framework Programme 7.
- ESF.
- EFRE.
- NIH.
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- ERASMUS+.
- Bilateral agreements with 310 universities all over the world.
- Member of CGU.
Calendar
From October to September.
Departments
- Catholic Theology.
- Law.
- Business, Economics and Management Information Systems.
- Medicine.
- Philosophy, Art History, History and Humanities.
- Psychology.
- Education and Sports Science.
- Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies.
- Mathematics.
- Physics.
- Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine.
- Chemistry and Pharmacy.
Studies
With its 11 faculties, the Universität Regensburg offers a wide range of programmes of study. Almost all faculties (few exceptions are e.g. Medicine, Pharmacy and Law) have modularised their Bachelor and Master programmes. The B.A. programmes at the university comprise two or three subjects that are studied simultaneously. In the B.Sc. course of study, one subject is studied as the main focus. Bachelor programmes are based on a three-year study cycle, Master programmes on a two-year cycle.
Degrees:
- American Studies.
- Applied Kinesiology.
- Art History.
- Biochemistry.
- Biology.
- British Studies.
- Business Administration.
- Catholic Theology.
- Chemistry.
- Classical Archaeology.
- Classical Studies.
- Comparative european Ethnology.
- Complex Condensed Materials and Soft Matter.
- Computational Science.
- Concepts of Humanity and Human Values in a Christian Perspective.
- Criminology and Research on Violence.
- Cultural History of the Middle Ages.
- Democracy Studies.
- Dentistry.
- Czech Language and Literature.
- Democracy Studies.
- Dentistry.
- Early and Ancient History.
- Eastern Europe Studies.
- East-West Studies.
- Economics.
- Education.
- English Linguistics.
- European-American Studies.
- Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences.
- Fine Arts and Aesthetic Education.
- French Language and Literature.
- General and Comparative Linguistics.
- German Language and Literature.
- Greek Language and Literature.
- History.
- History of Science.
- Historical Musicology.
- Information Science.
- Italian Language and Literature.
- Intercultural European Studies.
- International Economics.
- Latin Language and Literature.
- Law.
- Literary Theory and Comparative Literature.
- Management Information Systems.
- Mathematics.
- Media Informatics.
- Media Studies.
- Media Theory and Comparative.
- Medicine.
- Medicinal Chemistry.
- Molecular Medicine.
- Musicology.
- Nanoscience.
- Pharmacy.
- Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Polish Language and Literature.
- Political Science.
- Protestant Theology.
- Psychology.
- Real Estate Management.
- Romance Language and Literature.
- Russian (Eastern Slavic) Language and Literature.
- Slavic Languages and Literature.
- South East European Studies.
- South Slavic Languages and Literature.
- Spanish Language and Literature.
- Speech Communication and Rhetoric.
- Synthesis and Catalysis.
- Teacher Training for Elementary and Secondary Schools.