University
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Subject areas featured in the ranking
- Biology / Bioscience (Last update 2021)
- Biotechnology (Last update 2022)
- Chemical Engineering (Last update 2022)
- Chemistry (Last update 2021)
- Computer Science (Last update 2021)
- Dentistry (Last update 2021)
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- Environmental Engineering (Last update 2022)
- Geography (Last update 2021)
- Geoscience (Last update 2021)
- German Language and Literature (Last update 2022)
- Industrial Engineering (Last update 2020)
- Law (Last update 2020)
- Materials Science / Engineering (Last update 2022)
- Mathematics (Last update 2021)
- Mechanical Engineering (Last update 2022)
- Mechatronics (Last update 2022)
- Medicine (Last update 2021)
- Pharmacy (Last update 2021)
- Physics (Last update 2021)
- Political Science / Social Sciences (Last update 2021)
- Process Engineering (Last update 2022)
- Psychology (Last update 2022)
- Romance Studies (Last update 2022)
- Sports Sciences (Last update 2021)
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The university library has a stock of 5.4 million books, 74.0000 electronic journals and 444,000 e-books and databases. For university members, an extensive electronic inventory is available from renowned publishers such as Springer Nature, Wiley or ACS. The university library is open daily until midnight. It offers a book courier service, German and international interlibrary loan and a wide-ranging training program and operates the electronic copy delivery service FAUdok and the open access publisher FAU University Press. more information |
There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, German as a foreign language, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, Danish, German Sign Language (DGS), Finnish, Icelandic, Korean, Modern Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Swahili, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian. more information |
The university offers its own sports programme. Students attending the institution can participate in sports programmes of other Bavarian higher education institutions. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. The programme is open to: Technische Hochschule Nürnberg (TH Nürnberg), neighbouring universities, others as guest students. The FAU has its own water sports centre on the large Lake Brombach in Pleinfeld offering a wide range of sailing courses (Uni Jolle, Kat) and other water sports in the summer. FAU is a Partner University of Leading Athletics of the German University Sports Association (adh) The programme is designed for popular sports. The range of activities is extremely diverse, with over 60 different types of sports/disciplines. Sports: Aikido, badminton, basketball, boxing, calisthenics, capoeira, fencing, fitness, gym, frisbee, futsal, football, apparatus gymnastics, handball, indoor cycling, jiu-jitsu, judo, martial arts, climbing, headball table tennis, kung fu, lacrosse, running and inline track, mixed martial arts, parkour, and much more. more information |
Last update 2022: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education.
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