Friday, December 28, 2007

Technische Universität Braunschweig - Germany

The Technical University at Brunswick is the oldest University of Technology in Germany. It was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum. Today it has about 13,000 students, making it the third largest university in Lower Saxony. Its complete name is Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig (Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina at Brunswick).Today, out of a total student community of around 15'000, there are nearly 1'600 non-German students, from well over 80 different countries, studying here for their first academic degree or within bilateral exchange programmes. Over the years, the TU Braunschweig has developed educational links with a great number of foreign universities both on the individual and the institutional level. There are official co-operation agreements with universities in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Canada, South America, China, Japan and Indonesia. Within the framework of the SOCRATES/ERASMUS program there are student exchange programs with more than 180 universities all over Europe and this network of partners is expanding all the time .

2007 THES Ranking - Number 386

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