University
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
General remarks
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Subject areas featured in the ranking
- Biology / Bioscience (Last update 2018)
- Chemical Engineering (Last update 2016)
- Chemistry (Last update 2018)
- Commercial/Business Law (Last update 2017)
- Computer Science (Last update 2018)
- Dentistry (Last update 2018)
- Education Science (Last update 2016)
- Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering (Last update 2016)
- Engineering, interdisciplinary (Last update 2016)
- Engineering, interdisciplinary (Last update 2016)
- English/North American Studies (Last update 2016)
- Geography (Last update 2018)
- Geoscience (Last update 2018)
- German Language and Literature (Last update 2016)
- Industrial Engineering (Last update 2017)
- Law (Last update 2017)
- Material Engineering (Last update 2016)
- Mathematics (Last update 2018)
- Mechanical Engineering (Last update 2016)
- Mechatronics (Last update 2016)
- Medicine (Last update 2018)
- Pharmacy (Last update 2018)
- Physics (Last update 2018)
- Political Science (Last update 2018)
- Psychology (Last update 2016)
- Romance Studies (Last update 2016)
- Sports Sciences (Last update 2018)
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Further university sites
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Central services
| The university library has a stock of 5.3 million books, 52,500 electronic magazines and journals, 450,000 e-books and databases. University members have remote access to a large electronic collection from renowned publishers such as Springer Nature and ACS. 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 |
| There is a foreign language centre. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, Modern Greek, Dutch, Persian, Swedish, Swahili, Romanian, Hebrew, Catalan, Danish, - German as a Foreign Language (DaF), German Sign Language. more information |
| The university offers its own sports programme. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. Students attending the institution can participate in sports programmes of other Bavarian higher education institutions. 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. 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 |
Last update 2018: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education, Germany.
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