Fakultät 2 - Fakultät für Architektur at the RWTH Aachen

RWTH Aachen

Schinkelstraße 1
52056 Aachen
Phone: +49 241 809-5001

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Basic information

Total number of students	1,660 *
Number of master degree students	680

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/12 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	95.1 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	62.0 %

International orientation

International orientation, bachelor's	5/10 points
International orientation, master's	6/10 points
Outgoing students	3.0 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Professional qualification for architects

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.0
Support in studies	2.4
Courses offered	2.3
Study organisation	1.9
Exams	2.3
Excursions	2.0
Scientific-artistical orientation	1.7
Job market preparation	2.5
Support for stays abroad	2.1
Rooms	2.1
Library	1.7
IT-infrastructure	2.0
Workstations	2.6
Overall study situation	2.0

Degree courses with details

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

none

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Internationally respected diversity of subjects in the following fields: Cultural and historical foundations, design and presentation, construction, building planning, urban planning and landscape architecture. Project-oriented course with interdisciplinary modules, design as an interdisciplinary discipline. Research topics, especially projects and research areas integrated into teaching; This also includes German and international self-construction projects. Regular awards and prizes for student projects and final theses (including Euregional Prize for Architecture, BDA Masters).
Special features regarding the international orientation
Many partnerships within Erasmus and worldwide; Around 90 outgoing students and 50 incoming students per year; Faculty has its own International Office; Structured recognition procedures. From winter semester 2019/20 Bachelor's degree with mobility window or a 5th semester for specialisation. Formal recognition of credits earned externally is easy for this semester. If 54 CP were earned at a foreign university, there may be the possibility of a "with International Honors" certificate supplement. Two new Master's degrees in English starting in winter semester 2019/20.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, ES; Università Roma Tre, IT; Technische Universität Wien, AT; Politecnico di Milano, IT; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH; Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, NO; Technische Universiteit Delft, NL; Dublin Institute of Technology, IRL; EWHA Womans University Seoul, Südkorea; Tongji University Shanghai, China
Equipment of the work places
All Bachelor's students are given a job. An internal data platform for the exchange of designs is currently being set up.
Further information about study entry phase
https://www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/Studium/Im-Studium/~vcn/Erstsemestereinfuehrung/