University of Hohenheim
| University of Hohenheim | |
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| Universität Hohenheim | |
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| Established | 1818 |
| Type | Public |
| Rector | Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Liebig |
| Academic staff | 113 |
| Students | > 7,000 (SS 2010) |
| Location | Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 48°42′41″N 9°12′34″E / 48.7114°N 9.2095°ECoordinates: 48°42′41″N 9°12′34″E / 48.7114°N 9.2095°E |
| Website | www.uni-hohenheim.de |
The University of Hohenheim (German: Universität Hohenheim) is a university in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1818 it is Stuttgart's oldest university and one of Germany's leading universities both in agricultural sciences and economics.
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[edit] History
From 1770 to 1794, the Karlsschule was the only university in Stuttgart. Since 1818, Stuttgart's oldest university is the University of Hohenheim. It is not related to the University of Stuttgart (founded in 1829), apart from some cooperations.
On November 20, 1818, Hohenheim became the site of an important agricultural institution, founded by King William I of Württemberg for teaching, experimentation and demonstration. The first director was Johann Nepomuk Schwerz, and it was located in Hohenheim Castle built by Duke Karl Eugen.
In 1847 the institution was designated as holding the rank of an "Academy of Agriculture and Forestry". In 1904 the name was changed to "Agricultural College". Hohenheim College was awarded the right to confer doctorates in 1918 and habilitations in 1919. By appointing Margarete von Wrangell on the chair for plant nutrition in 1923, she became the first female full professor at a German university. The school was given its present name (Universität Hohenheim) in 1967.
[edit] Location
The university is located in the south of Stuttgart, in the district of Plieningen. The campus with its main building, the Castle Hohenheim, is surrounded by vast park areas (German: Hohenheimer Gärten), including the historic Landesarboretum Baden-Württemberg and the Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim, a modern botanical garden. The campus is close to Stuttgart Stadtbahn station Plieningen Garbe of line U3.
[edit] ELLS
The University Hohenheim was co-founder of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) which was established in 2001. This university life sciences network presently includes the following members:
- University of Hohenheim (UHOH), Stuttgart, Germany
- The University of Copenhagen Faculty of Life Sciences (KU), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
- University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Austria
- Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), the Netherlands
- Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS), Czech Republic and
- Warsaw University of Life Science (SGGW), Poland.
- University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
- Szent István University, Gödöllö, Hungary
Main fields of co-operation in ELLS are:
- joint curriculum development
- student and staff mobility
- pooling of expertise
- quality assurance
- development of university policy and strategy
- internationalisation
[edit] Courses of studies
[edit] Bachelor's degree
- Agricultural biology (B.Sc.)
- Agricultural science (B.Sc.)
- Biology (B.Sc.)
- Nutrition science (B.Sc.)
- Communication science (B.Sc.)
- Nutrition science and biotechnology (B.Sc.)
- Renewable ressources and bioenergy (B.Sc.)
- Business informatics (B.Sc.) in co-operation with the University of Stuttgart
- Economics with business profile (B.Sc.)
- Economics with agricultural profile (B.Sc.)
- Economics with socio-economic profile (B.Sc.)
- Economics with educational profile (B.Sc.)
[edit] Master's degree
- Agricultural economics (M.Sc.)
- Agribusiness (M.Sc.)
- Agricultural Economics (M.Sc.)
- Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics (M.Sc.)
- Amestrian Alchemy
- Crop Sciences (M.Sc.)
- Economics (M.Sc.)
- Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production (M.Sc.)
- Environmental Science - Soil, Water and Biodiversity (M.Sc.)
- Erdsystemwissenschaften (M.Sc.)
- International Business and Economics (M.Sc.)
- Organic Food Chain Management (M.Sc.)
- Sustainable Agriculture and Integrated Watershed Management (M.Sc.)
- Management (M.Sc.)
- Business informatics (M.Sc.)
- Business economics (M.Sc.)
- Economics for lecturship (mit diversen Zweitfächern) (M.Sc.)
- Communications management (M.Sc.)
[edit] Statistics
| University of Hohenheim 2010[1] | |
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| Number of study possibilities | 41 |
| Professors | 114 |
| Number of employees (scientific) | 821 |
| Number of employees (not scientific) | 1,142 |
| Number of students | 8,157 |
| Number of foreign students | 821 |
| Semester | Number of students [2] |
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| Ws 2005/2006 | 5.919 |
| Ws 2006/2007 | 6.315 |
| Ws 2007/2008 | 6.681 |
| Ws 2008/2009 | 7.158 |
| Ws 2009/2010 | 8.157 |
[edit] Special characteristics
- The university possesses its own cemetery, where professors were buried a long time ago. Today it is used very rarely.
- According to a survey conducted to elect the most beautiful campus in Germany, the university could reach the 7th place in the overall placings in 2009.[3] Therefore it is seen as one of the most beautiful campuses in Baden-Württemberg.
- The university hosts the Josef G. Knoll Visiting Professorship for Development Studies, a chair endowed by Senator Herman Eiselen. The first holder, Prof. Dr. Patrick Webb, established a programme of teaching and research from 1996 through 1998. He was succeeded by Prof. Dr. Dieter Neubert (1999/2000), Prof. Dr. Heinz-Rüdiger Korff (2000-2004), and PD Dr. Thomas Berger (2004-2007).[4]
[edit] References
- ^ "Facts and figures". https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/zahlen-studium.html?&L=1.
- ^ https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/fileadmin/uni_hohenheim/Intranet_MA/Zentrales_Marketing/Broschueren/pocket_folder/RZ_UniHohenheim_in_Zahlen_D_09_20.09.2010_web.pdf
- ^ http://www.unicum.de/evo/UNICUMde/uni/Campus/2009/Uni-Passau-hat-Deutschlands-schoensten-Campus/3
- ^ http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/i490d/en/history.htm
[edit] External links
- Universität Hohenheim (German) Official site
