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Universität Osnabrück | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1974 |
| Budget | € 141.1 million[1] |
| President | Susanne Menzel-Riedl[2] |
Academic staff | 981[1] |
Administrative staff | 734[1] |
| Students | 14,000[1] |
| Location | ,, Germany |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | EUA |
| Website | www.uni-osnabrueck.de |
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Osnabrück University (German:Universität Osnabrück) is a public research university located in the city ofOsnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany.
The university is known for its many interdisciplinary degree programmes, some of them rare or even unique among German universities, includingEuropean studies,migration studies, applied systems science andcognitive science. It is also notable for its research in the above fields, as well as in others includingpeace and conflict studies,artificial intelligence,computational linguistics.[citation needed]
Higher education began in 1632 in Osnabrück when theGymnasium Carolinum was upgraded into a Jesuit university. However, the Academia Carolina Osnabrugensis was closed just one year later when Swedish troops recaptured Osnabrück for the Protestant side in theThirty Years' War.[3]
The government of the state of Lower Saxony decided to set up a university in Osnabrück in 1970, and by 1973 had laid down the legal basis for such an institution. The university opened for the summer semester in 1974 as a successor institution to the Adolf Reichwein Teachers' College, which had occupied the former palace of the Prince-Bishopric since 1953.
The main building of Osnabrück University is the baroque castle (built 1667–1675), formerly home and office to thePrince-Bishop of Osnabrück, nowadays housing mainly university administration. It is located close to the city center. In summer, the (mostly grass-covered) castle court is used for open air cinema andconcerts.
Most faculty buildings are scattered in close vicinity of the castle. Sport stadium and gymnasium are a bit farther away; the mathematical and natural-scientific faculties as well as thebotanical garden are located in the western part of the city in the borough "Westerberg" (the "Western Mountain", which is rather a hill than a mountain). The campus at Westerberg is in parts shared with the neighbouringUniversity of Applied Sciences. The distance between castle and the Westerberg campus is about 1.2 miles.
Osnabrück University consists of ten schools (Fachbereiche) and four interdisciplinary institutes. Schools are split up into subjects or institutes or both.
The Schools and interdisciplinary institutes are:
The university is part of theGerman Academic Exchange Service's Helmut-Schmidt-Programme (also known as Public Policy and Good Governance Scholarships for Developing Countries),[4] alongside other institutions such as theHertie School of Governance in Berlin and theWilly Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt.[5] The program attracts people from Asia, Latin America, and Africa to study in selected German universities for a policy-oriented Master's program.
FormerPresident of Germany,Christian Wulff, is an alumnus of the university.
Ere long the Jesuits made the Carolinum an important educational stronghold in the cause of the Counter-Reformation and in the middle of the seventeenth century, during the Thirty Years War, the Carolinum was raised to the status of Jesuit University. ... A year after its official opening, the university was closed down again, as the city, having the misfortune to be in the frontline between warring Protestants and Catholics, suffered the fate of repeated power changes.
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