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	38,287
Students at this campus	28,241
Semester contribution	127,00 € *
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		13.7 %
Natural Sciences, Mathematics		18.2 %
Law, Economic and Social Sciences		19.0 %
Humanities, Languages		11.1 %
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)		35.1 %
Other studies		2.8 %

Students by type of degree pursued

Bachelor's degree		38.3 %
Master's degree		28.6 %
Teacher qualification degree		13.5 %
Pre-Bologna degrees		18.7 %
Other types of degrees		1.0 %

Central services

Opening hours central student counselling

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Special features regarding the library

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

Foreign language center and courses

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

Special features regarding university sports

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