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Faculties Life at the university has a clear inter- national profile. A wide range of partnerships,  Architecture and Urban Planning inter-institutional agreements and exchange  Civil and Environmental Engineering programs with universities worldwide place  Chemistry Stuttgart at the heart of a global network.  Energy-, Process- and Bio-Engineering The international Master’s programs, taught  Computer Science, Electrical Engineering in English, are popular with students from and Information Technology Studying for a doctoral degree all over the world. Research-based doctoral work  Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy  Engineering Design, Production M.Sc., M.A. or Dipl. graduates can study The University of Stuttgart constantly strives Engineering and Automotive Engineering for a doctoral degree (equivalent to PhD) to react to the dynamics of change in the  Mathematics and Physics in any subject offered at the University knowledge society. It ensures that, whenever  Humanities of Stuttgart. required, its research and teaching activities  Management, Economics and have an interdisciplinary focus, and makes Social Sciences ln Germany, PhD work is generally research- use of the latest teaching technologies, such based. The usual way to acquire a doctorate as e-learning, blended learning, and virtual is to find a professor who is prepared classrooms. to supervise your research. Apart from this, Double there are Research Training Groups, degrees (M.Sc.) taught PhD programs and other doctoral with international programs as well, please see: partner universities www.gradus.uni-stuttgart.de ~ 6.000 international more than English- students 500 exchange speaking from more than programs with over M.Sc. 100 countries 350 universities programs all over the world Our research activities focus on eight worldwide interdisciplinary fields: Professional Our mission Main fields of research School of In the center of a region of great economic  Complex systems and communication Education (PSE) strength as well as cultural integrative power,  Modeling and simulation technology the University of Stuttgart sees itself as the  New materials hub of university, non-university and industrial  Design and technology over research as well as a guarantor of a holistic, of sustainable living spaces 130 study high-quality, research-led teaching.  Integrated product design programs and production engineering ~ 28,000  Mobility students  Sustainable energy supply and enrolled in the environment 10 faculties  Technology concepts, contexts and evaluation Quality management system in teaching and learning 7th EU-Framework Program (2007–2013) Number of contributions to projects: 236/ 3rd place among all German universities

Third-party research funding: Amount of third-party research funding per professor: 1st place among German universities Highlights (Federal Statistical Office, Nov 2015) Partnership in 2 out of 15 federal leading-edge cluster projects: MicroTEC Southwest & Electro- Production Numerous manufacturing and engineering mobility Southwest Engineering science institutes, united in the Stuttgart Excellence Initiative: Production Research Center PZS, combine Cluster of Excellence “Simulation Technology” their expertise and knowledge in virtually all Success & Excellent Graduate School “Advanced Manu- areas of production science and technology. facturing Engineering” Simulation The Excellence Cluster Simulation Thus, they create synergies not only for education Science Technology (SimTech) is one of and basic research but especially for industrial Rankings One out of 10 federal research campuses the largest interdisciplinary research applications in sectors such as machinery and in Germany: efforts in Europe to advance equipment, materials and process engineering, ARENA2036 – Active Research Environment modeling, numerical and data mining automotive, optics, and medical engineering. QS World University Ranking 2015 for the Next Generation of Automobiles techniques, and cyber infrastructures Rank Worldwide Leibniz Prizes since 2000 for a broad class of simulation applications. Bionics by Subject: The Leibniz Prize, also described as the “German The Collaborative Research Center (CRC/TRR) zz Civil Engineering | Top 51–100 Nobel Prize”, is considered to be the most eminent ARENA2036 – Active Research Environment “Biological Design and Integrative Structures” zz Electrical Engineering | Top 101–150 research prize in Germany. Four Stuttgart scientists for the Next Generation of Automobiles has been tasked with transferring the design zz Material Sciences | Top 101–150 have been awarded the Leibniz Prize since 2000 – Here, researchers from university, non-university principles of biological structures to an engineer- zz Mechanical Engineering | 42nd for their excellent work in the fields of linguistics, research institutes and industry jointly research ing model and with making these principles by Faculty: experimental physics, cybernetics, and theoretical on and develop the next generation of usable for the construction industry and engineer- zz Engineering and Technology | 107th chemistry. production processes for flexible automobile ing sector. manufacturing. Rank among German universities by Subject: Europe’s most powerful computing alliance The Institute for Quantum Science and zz Civil Engineering | 2nd Germany’s three federal High-Performance Technology (IQST) is a unique consortium zz Electrical Engineering | 4th Quantum Computing Centers – in Stuttgart, Munich and of both universities of Stuttgart and zz Material Sciences | 4th Technology Jülich – have combined to form the Gauss Ulm as well as the Max-Planck-Institute zz Mechanical Engineering | 3rd Center for Supercomputing, Europe’s most for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. DFG/German Research Foundation Funding Atlas 2015 powerful high-performance computing alliance. The objective of the association is to U-Multirank 2015 DFG-Grants per professor research the enormous potential of quantum Overall ranking zz Humanities and Social Sciences | place 4 physics and to make it usable for applications, zz Top grade in 11 categories zz Natural Sciences | place 7 The Visualization Research Center e.g. for high-performance computers, tap-proof Faculty 5: Computer Science, Electrical (VISUS) plays a key role in ad- Visual data transfer, extremely precise biomedical Engineering and Information Technology DFG-Grants in absolute figures vancing visualization techniques Computing sensors or low-loss energy technology. zz Top grade in 9 categories zz Civil Engieering and Architecture | place 2 for big data in the context of inter- zz Engineering Sciences | place 4 disciplinary collaboration, e.g. SOFIA research aircraft Humboldt Foundation Ranking 2014 zz Heat Technology/Process Engineering | place 9 in the Collaborative Research Center The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared International appeal of research in Stuttgart zz Information Techology, (CRC/TRR) “Quantitative Visual Computing”. Astronomy, SOFIA, is a Boeing 747SP equipped in the field of engineering: research visits System & Electrical Engineering | place 3 with a German high-performance mirror by international scholarship holders and zz Mechanical Engineering | place 7 e-Humanities telescope. The flying observatory is a joint award-winners of the Humboldt Foundation: e-humanities are well established at the Univer- US-German project. zz 7th place in Germany (absolute rank). CHE University Ranking 2015/16 sity of Stuttgart – especially the disciplines of Top positions for “outstanding” computer linguistics (including the Collaborative results in at least five ranking criteria: Research Center/CRC 732 “incremental specifi- Wind tunnel zz Information Technology cation in context”) and e-poetics. Stuttgart’s high-performance wind tunnel zz Physics is one of the most powerful facilities of its kind in the world. It tests the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic properties of vehicles at speeds of up to 265 km/h.

International Center for Cultural and Technological Studies – IZKT The IZKT’s research projects focus on the inter- faces between individual scientific disciplines, investigating the interaction between cultural formations and technological innovation at an Stuttgart City international level. and Region

Stuttgart Highlights Art and culture, shopping and sports, entertain- ment and traditional Swabian cuisine – the city of Stuttgart, with its charming position amidst forests and vineyards, the Swabian Mountains and the Black Forest, and with its attractive leisure activities and broad range of cultural University events, caters to all tastes. One of the highlights The Stuttgart region is a powerful business of Stuttgart – in Stuttgart’s cultural life is the Stuttgart State location, especially for high-tech industries. Theater with its worldfamous ballet, renowned an excellent theater and an opera that has been voted It is a main center for: choice opera house of the year several times over. zz the automotive industry zz mechanical engineering Stuttgart region – zz electrical engineering one of Europe’s largest high-tech regions zz information and communication technology zz Region with the strongest innovation index zz environmental technology in the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg (State Statistics Office Baden-Wuerttemberg 2014) Many global players, such as Bosch, Daimler, zz Number of patents compared to other Porsche and IBM Germany, have their head regions in Europe: 2nd place (OECD 2012) offices and manufacturing sites in and around zz Industry investment in Research Stuttgart. In addition, numerous smaller and Development: 3rd place in Europe companies are located here, many of them (Eurostat 2011) recognized as worldwide leaders in their field. visuell.de

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