Founded in 1962, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum is under state sponsorship and is one of the ten largest universities in Germany.
In addition to 42,000 students, of whom more than 6,700 are international students from over 130 different countries, the university employs more than 6,000 staff and a total of 500 professors and junior professors in around 28,000 rooms. There are 21 faculties at RUB in the humanities, social sciences, engineering, natural sciences and medicine. and At nine research departments, research at RUB is carried out in an interdisciplinary and internationally networked manner; in these networks, interlinked questions are investigated. In addition, RUB researchers are involved in 15 Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios, which are funded by national and international donors. In addition to the possibility of a state examination, Bachelor's or Master's degree, the RUB also offers training in 22 apprenticeship professions. In addition to talent promotion and a career service, there are also mentoring programmes.
The RUB also has a broad social base, with the Advisory Centre for the Inclusion of the Disabled (BZI) and the Equal Opportunities Office, as well as offers for health management and family-friendly university life, such as RUB day-care centres.
In addition to the teaching buildings, IT services, university sports facilities and research facilities such as RUBION, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum also includes the Centre for Music, the Art Collections, the State Language Institute, the Centres for Foreign Language Training and Science Didactics, as well as the University Library and the Botanical Garden.
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