Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Standort Erlangen
Schloßplatz 4
91054 Erlangen
Phone: +49 9131 85-23976

https://www.fau.eu/

General remarks

This University is also featured in the U-Multirank world university rankings.

Basic information

Kind of Institution and funding body	University, public
Year of foundation	1743
Total number of Students	38,669
Students at this campus	29,025
Semester contribution	116,00 € *
Tuition fees	There are no study fees.

Subject areas featured in the ranking

Further university sites
Nürnberg

Students by area of study

Medicine, Health Science		12.5 %
Natural Sciences, Mathematics		17.2 %
Law, Economic and Social Sciences		19.9 %
Humanities, Languages		11.3 %
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)		36.2 %
Other studies		2.8 %

Students by type of degree pursued

Bachelor's degree		42.2 %
Master's degree		25.5 %
Teacher qualification degree		6.9 %
Pre-Bologna degrees		24.3 %
Other types of degrees		1.1 %

Central services

Opening hours central student counselling

please see university website (link below) more information

Special features regarding the library

The university library has a stock of 5.3 million books, 53,500 electronic magazines and journals, 460,000 e-books and databases. The extensive electronic inventory from renowned publishers such as Springer Nature or ACS is available to university members remotely. The university library is open daily until midnight. It has a book courier service, German and international interlibrary lending and a comprehensive, prize-winning training programme and operates the electronic copy delivery service FAUdok and publisher FAU University Press. more information

Foreign language courses

There is a foreign language centre. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, Danish, German as a Foreign Language, German Sign Language, Finnish, Croatian, Modern Greek, more information

Special features regarding university sports

The university offers its own sports programme. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. Bavarian universities The program is open for: 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. The FAU is a Partner University of Leading Athletics of the Deutsche Hockey-Sportverband (German Hockey Association – DHSV). The programme is designed for popular sports. The range of activities is extremely diverse, with over 60 different types of sports/disciplines. more information