RUB's international profile
Internationalism traditionally has a very high priority at the Ruhr-Universität. The university cooperates in research and teaching through many active partnerships with universities and research institutes around the world. Members of all departments are involved in international research networks and maintain intensive international exchange.
activ worldwide
The Ruhr-Universität is a member of the Utrecht Network, where thirty large European universities cooperate on issues of internationalisation. Also beyond the European continent, the university has a high profile. Examples of this global commitment: in Shanghai the Ruhr-University supports the department of mechanical engineering at the Chinese-German University College at Tongji University, it is actively involved in academic reconstruction in Afghanistan, offers various degrees in South Africa at the South African-German Centre for Research Development and Criminal Justice at University of the Western Cap, Capetown, and together with its Ruhr university neighbours, is running liaison offices in New York and Moskau.
positioned internationally
More than 4,500 international students from some 130 countries are currently at the Ruhr Universität - they appreciate the modern degree structures, the variety of subjects, the interesting cross-border research projects and the good support services on campus. Every year, the university also welcomes some 300 visiting scholars from around the world, including a particularly high number of scholarship holders from the Humboldt Foundation, and other renowned scientists. At five international graduate schools, doctoral students from around the world practice their research.
growingly mobile
For students who wish to spend part of their degree abroad, the Ruhr-Universität also offers a host of opportunities. In exchange programmes with European partner universities alone, with over 350 collaborations from Finland to Italy and from Turkey to Portugal, there are places to study abroad in all degree courses. The number of Socrates/Erasmus students has doubled over the last three years, and the number of mobile students will continue to grow – facilitated by: expert advice on studying abroad, the further development of interesting degree courses with bi-national dual degree qualification and the extension of exchange agreements already actively underway, notably with North and South America.