Rheinisch–Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

The RWTH is the largest technical university in Germany with 47,173 students enrolled in 150 degree programs. More than 6,500students and more than 900 doctoral students graduate annually from RWTH. The number of foreign students (10,590 students from 137 countries) and RWTH’s great international network (of formalized cooperations) with over 100 universities worldwide highlight the university’s strong international reputation. The university’s annual budget amounts to approx. 1.049M€, with about 403.7M €covered by external funding. The RWTH is composed of 260 institutes in 9faculties. It offers 36 graduate programs among which are nine so-called Research Training Groups funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The RWTH is one of 11 German Universities of Excellence and receives additional funding for three clusters of excellence from the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the DFG