Cologne University
| University of Cologne | |
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| Universität zu Köln | |
 university seal of 1392 | |
| Latin: Universitatis Coloniensis | |
| Established | 1388/1919 Closed 1798—1919 |
| Rector | Axel Freimuth |
| Academic staff | 508 |
| Students | 44,228 (WS 2006/07) |
| Postgraduates | 3,718 |
| Location | Cologne, NRW, Germany |
| Website | www.uni-koeln.de |
The University of Cologne is one of the oldest universities in Europe and, with 38,000 students and 4,000 postgraduates, one of the largest universities in Germany. It is furthermore the German founding member of the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies (CEMS). Since 2012 the university is regularly called an elite university in all kinds of German media because the university's overall concept was awarded in the German Universities Excellence Initiative.
History
1388–1798
The University of Cologne was established in 1388 as the fourth university in the Holy Roman Empire, after the Charles University of Prague (1348), the University of Vienna (1365) and the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg (1386). The charter was signed by Pope Urban VI. The university began teaching on January 6, 1389. In 1798, the university was abolished by the French, who had invaded Cologne in 1794, because under the new French constitution, universities were abolished all over France.The last rector Ferdinand Franz Wallraf was able to preserve the university’s Great Seal, now once more in use.
1919–today
Main building, by architect Adolf Abel, 1934
In 1919, the Prussian government endorsed a decision by the Cologne City Council to re-establish the university. On May 19, 1919, the Cologne Mayor Konrad Adenauer signed the charter of the modern university.
At that point, the new university was located in Neustadt-Süd, but relocated to its current campus in Lindenthal on 2 November 1934. The old premises are now being used for the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
Initially, the university was composed of the Faculty of Commerce, Economics and Social Sciences (successor to the Institutes of Commerce and of Communal and Social Administration) and the Faculty of Medicine (successor to the Academy of Medicine). In 1920, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts were added, from which latter the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was split off in 1955 to form a separate Faculty. In 1980, the two Cologne departments of the Rhineland School of Education were attached to the university as the Faculties of Education and of Special Education. In 1988, the university became a founding member of the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies (CEMS), today's Global Alliance in Management Education.
The University is a leader in the area of economics and is regularly placed in top positions for law and commerce, both for national and international rankings.
Organization
University campus between main building and mensa (the university canteen)
The University of Cologne is a statutory corporation (Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts), operated by the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Faculties
The university is divided into six faculties, which together offer 200 fields of study. The faculties are those of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, Law, Medicine (with the affiliated University clinic), Arts, Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Human Sciences.
| faculty | students | |
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 Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences | ca. 10,000 | |
 Faculty of Law | ca. 5,000 | |
 Faculty of Medicine with University Hospital of Cologne | ca. 3,200 | |
 Faculty of Arts and Humanities | ca. 16,500 | |
 Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ca. 7,500 | |
| Faculty of Human Sciences | ca. 2,800 |
Rectors
On November 24, 2004, Axel Freimuth was elected as the Rector of the University. His four-year term began on April 1, 2005. He succeeded Tassilo Küpper and is the 49th Rector since 1919. He was previously Dean of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Students and faculty
In 2005, the University enrolled 47,203 students, including 3,718 graduate students. In 2003, the number of post-doctoral students was 670.
The number of international students was 6,157 in the Summer Semester of 2005. This amounts to approximately 13% of the total students. Those from developing countries made up about 60%, representing a total of 123 nations. The largest contingents came from Bulgaria (10.5%), Russia (8.8%), Poland (7.4%), China (6.2%) and Ukraine (5.7%).
There are 508 professors at the university, including 70 women. In addition, the university employs 1,549 research assistants, with an additional 765 at the clinic, and 1,462 other assistants (3,736 at the clinic).
Partner universities
Campus of the Cologne University Hospital in Lindenthal
The University of Cologne maintains eighteen official partnerships with universities from ten countries. Of these, the partnerships with Clermont-Ferrand I and Pennsylvania State are the oldest partnerships. In addition, Cologne has further cooperations with more than 260 other universities.
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Notable alumni and professors
Albertus Magnus Monument in front of the main building
Over the centuries, scholars from Cologne have been among the most prominent in their fields, beginning with Albertus Magnus and his pupil Thomas Aquinas (both 13th century). Notable alumni of the 20th century include among others Kurt Alder (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950), Peter Grunberg (Nobel Prize in Physics 2007), Heinrich Boll (Nobel Prize for Literature), Karl Carstens (president of the Federal Republic of Germany 1979–1984), Gustav Heinemann (president of the Federal Republic of Germany 1969 to 1974), Karolos Papoulias (current president of the Hellenic Republic), Amos Grunebaum (famous US obstetrician), and Erich Gutenberg (founder of modern German business studies).
Research & Study
Research profile
The University of Cologne
The Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
The life and natural sciences are represented by the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences comprising biology, chemistry, geography, geosciences, mathematics and physics. These two Faculties have greatly benefited from long-standing excellent collaborations. Cutting-edge, internationally competitive research is currently being performed in many fields including research on aging-associated diseases, molecular evolutionary biology and plant sciences, quaternary research, and statistical physics. In addition, three interdisciplinary centres, the Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne , the Cologne Center
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities builds on a comprehensive and broad range of disciplines and has developed successful research foci in many areas, e.g. pre-modern cultures, medieval studies, literary studies and non-European cultures and languages in general and Africa research and cross-linguistic research in particular. In addition, a number of the Faculty’s research institutions are internationally recognized for their high levels of academic achievement, e.g. the Thomas Institute, the Husserl Archive, and the Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory.
The Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law both enjoy an excellent reputation in application-oriented research and are regarded as top German institutions in their fields. These two Faculties have strong links to around 30 affiliated institutes including public-private partnerships, e.g. the Institute for Energy Economics and the Center for Financial Research Cologne. Recently, fundamental research has been strengthened in the key areas of quantitative and experimental economic research and international law.
The Faculty of Human Sciences
The Faculty of Human Sciences was founded in 2007 and has already established successful research foci in, e.g., intercultural education and social psychology. In addition, its department of special education and rehabilitation is one of the largest centres in Europe . The Faculty aims to further develop educational research as one of its key research foci.
The University Hospital of Cologne takes a prominent position in Research and Study.
3500 students receive a high-quality, comprehensive medical program of studies.
Further information:
- Dean Medical Faculty
- Student representatives: Medicine | Dental Medicine | Neuroscience
- Interprofessional SkillsLab & Simulation Centre Cologne
- Institutes, Clinics and Centres
- Teaching Hospitals
- Schools, Professional training; School of Orhtoptics
- Thesis Offers
- Medical Circles, Medical Association, Special Fields of Research
- ZKS (Centre for Clinical Trials)
- Libraries, MedPilot - Searching and Document Ordering
- Graduate Programs/Schools
- SFBs: Collaborative Research Centre 832 | SFB 829
- ZMMK
- CECAD
- Klinik II für Innere Medizin: Nephrology Research | Kidney Research Center Cologne (KRCC)
University Hospital of Cologne
Healthcare Services
The University Hospital Cologne offers maximum supply. Annually 50.000 patients are stationary and more than 160.000 ambulantly medicated.In 59 specialist clinics and clinical institutes more than 6.800 co-workers apply their knowledge and demonstrate respect for the patients' individuality. The University Hospital Cologne takes a prominent position in Research and Teachings.
Further information:
- For Patients : http://www.uk-koeln.de/zb/zik/patinfo.shtml
- Institutes, Clinics and Centres : http://www.uk-koeln.de/kliniken/index.e.shtml
- Chief Medical Director : http://cms.uk-koeln.de/aerztlicherdirektor/
- Chief Commercial Director : http://www.uk-koeln.de/verwaltung/
- Patient Care and Services : http://pflege.uk-koeln.de/
- Schools : http://pflege.uk-koeln.de/ausbildung
- Central Service Facilities
- Blood Donation / Transfusion Medicine : http://transfusionsmedizin.uk-koeln.de/
- Pharmacy : http://cms.uk-koeln.de/apotheke/
- Spiritual Welfare : http://cms.uk-koeln.de/zentrales/seelsorge/
- Social Services : http://cms.uk-koeln.de/zentrales-patientenmanagement/content/sozialdienst/index_ger.html
Library
General Information
The Cologne University and City Library (USB) is the central library of the University of Cologne and as such functions as a service institution especially for university members and institutes, but also for the citizens of Cologne and surroundings and a number of other customers. The USB, along with the institute libraries, is responsible for supplying the University of Cologne with literature and information. To fulfill its duties it makes use of modern information and communication technologies.The USB offers both a wide spectrum of current information media and an extensive collection of historically important books. Its comprehensive special collections and areas of collection emphasis (business studies, social sciences, insurance studies (information in German), culture of Belgium/Luxembourg, Rhineland writings, European Union, Iceland-collection (information in German) make the library especially relevant for a supra-regional and non-academic clientele. The library has always been a trusted partner for businesses and aims to satisfy their information requirements with its collections.The library’s old stock is the largest and most important in all of North Rhine-Westphalia. The USB is the guardian of the academic and literary heritage of the city of Cologne, having originated from the Council Library (1602) and other preceding institutions and having been supplemented by a number of substantial donations up until today.According to the University charter, the USB is the central lending, reference library and information center for the University. It has a well-furnished textbook collection and a comprehensive research collection (non-circulating) in the open stacks, reading and catalog areas (approx. 100,000 volumes) with about 560 work spaces.
Collection
3.6 million items, approx. 8,500 of which are up-to-date periodicals for all subject areas except medicine (Medical Department of Cologne ).
Special subject collection areas include business studies, social sciences, insurance studies (information in German), the European Union and the culture of Belgium/Luxembourg, as well as Rhineland regional studies.
History
The Cologne USB was created as a result of the founding of the New University of Cologne in 1920. Its roots date back to a number of preceding institutions, which provided its rich and important old stock. The oldest root is the so-called Syndicate Library, founded in 1602 by the council of the city of Cologne, a reference library consisting mostly of legal scholarship to assist the work of the Council.The Wallraf collection, another major source of the library’s old stock, can be traced back to Ferdinand Franz Wallraf (1748-1824), the last president of the Old University. This collection, together with the collection of the Syndicate Library, forms the foundation of the old Cologne City Library.
Another important source came from the Grammar School Library, which dates back to a collection of the Jesuit College, which was abolished in 1773. During the French occupation, the collections of numerous Cologne monasteries and the old Cologne grammar schools were added after 1794.As the permanent depository of the grammar school and endowment fund, the library was incorporated into the City Library of Cologne and therefore became part of the USB in 1920.The handbook of historical book collections (information in German) contains a short overview of the history and the collections (as of 1991).
Storage Library
The Central Library was planned to consist entirely of closed stacks.
As the books were not originally intended to be directly accessible, they were stored economically in narrow shelf units, sorted in the order of acquisition (numerus currens).
These stacks books can be ordered to borrow or for use in the reading room.
Even the partial opening of the stacks ("Sofortausleihbereich" - SAB (instant lending area)) could not change this basic principle.
As the books were not originally intended to be directly accessible, they were stored economically in narrow shelf units, sorted in the order of acquisition (numerus currens).
These stacks books can be ordered to borrow or for use in the reading room.
Even the partial opening of the stacks ("Sofortausleihbereich" - SAB (instant lending area)) could not change this basic principle.
University and City Library (USB)
The Cologne University and City Library (USB) is the central library of the University of Cologne and as such functions as a service institution especially for university members and institutes, but also for the citizens of Cologne and surroundings and a number of other customers. The USB, along with the institute libraries, is responsible for supplying the University of Cologne
Opening Hours
- Biological Sciences Library : http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/hours/bio/index_eng.html
- Central Library : http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/hours/index_eng.html#e25580
- Chemistry Library : http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/hours/chemistry/index_eng.html
- Insurance Studies Library : http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/hours/insurance/index_eng.html
- Law Studies Library : http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/hours/law/index_eng.html
- Library of Human Sciences : http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/hours/hwa/index_eng.html
- Medical Department : http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/hours/index_eng.html#e25581
Central Library
| Service | Opening Hours |
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| Registration and reference desks (Tel.: 0221 470-2374) (contact via e-mail : http://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/res/auskunft/index_eng.html) | Mo – Th 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Fr 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. |
| "Sofortausleihbereich" - SAB (instant lending area) self-service shelves in the open stack Textbook collection | Mo – Fr 8 a.m. - midnight Sa – Su 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Return desk | Mo - Fr 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. After the return desk has closed you may return media at the reading room desk up to 15 minutes before closing time. |
| Reading Room I, Reading room desk, inter-library lending, Periodicals display area | Mo - Fr 9 a.m. - midnight Sa – Su 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. |
| Reading rooms II -VI, open stacks, European Documentation Centre (EDC) | Mo - Fr 8 a.m. - midnight Sa - Su 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. |
| Rare books reading room (together the university archive) | Mo, We, Fr 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tu, Th 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. |
| Digitizing service | Mo - Fr 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Mo - We 2 p.m. – 4 .p.m. Th 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. |
| Secretariat | Mo - Do 10 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Fr 10 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. |
Photo of University
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