University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

With about 20,000 students, 300 professors and 160 degree programs RPTU is the second largest university in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and one of the joungest, most recently founded universities within the German Higher Education landscape.

RPTU is a research-oriented university. It offers high quality graduate education and (post)doctoral research training in innovative fields of economic relevance, many of them as international programs (English-taught).

RPTU offers a favourable student-teacher ratio, guaranteeing excellent supervision, support and a fast track towards employability. The university’s concept of quality in postgraduate studies entails offering integrated work experience, an early introduction to academic networks and abundant opportunities for an independent student income.

A special feature of our graduate education is the intensive collaboration with national and international industries and research institutes, many of them (e.g. BASF, Daimler) situated close to RPTU.

The following internationally renowned research institutes closely work with RPTU and are located next to RPTU in Kaiserslautern:
• German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (= Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH) (DFKI)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (= Fraunhofer Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering) (IESE)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Technical and Industrial Mathematics (= Fraunhofer Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik) (ITWM)
• Institute for Surface and Thin Film Analysis (= Institut für Oberflächen- und Schichtanalytik GmbH) (IFOS)
• Research Institute for Technology and Work (= Institut für Technologie und Arbeit e.V.) (ITA)
• Institute for Composite Materials (= Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH) (IVW)
• Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Students profit from these networks by an instruction that is strongly linked to current tasks of the global market, participation in industry research projects (e.g. in Master thesis or internship) and the possibility of student assistant jobs at our 16 departments.

RPTU in Kaiserslautern
Architecture
Biology
Business Studies & Economics
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Mathematics
Mechanical & Process Engineering
Physics
Social Science
Spatial- & Environmental Planning

RPTU in Landau
Cultural & Social Science
Educational Sciences
Natural & Environmental Sciences
Psychology

https://rptu.de/en/about-us/organisation/faculties

RPTU and its research departments attract students worldwide: Over 15 percent of our students are international students from more than 120 countries. More than 40 percent of the students on campus are postgraduate and doctoral students. This underscores the university’s emphasis on master studies and doctoral training as well as on research.

Situated in the heart of Europe, the cities of Kaiserlautern and Landau offer a safe and welcoming place to stay for international students who can benefit from affordable living costs and no tuition fees.

More information: https://rptu.de/en/about-us/data-and-facts-about-the-rptu