University of Luxembourg
Public university in Luxembourg
Université du Luxembourg
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French
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Universität Luxemburg ( German ) Universitéit Lëtzebuerg ( Luxembourgish ) |
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Type | Public university |
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Established | 2003 |
Rector | Jens Kreisel |
Academic staff
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1,420 (2021) |
Students | 6,783 (2021) |
950 (2021) | |
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The University of Luxembourg ( French : Université du Luxembourg ; German : Universität Luxemburg ; Luxembourgish : Universitéit Lëtzebuerg ) is a public research university in Luxembourg .
History
The University of Luxembourg was founded in 2003 by combining four existing education and research institutes: the Centre universitaire, Institut supérieur d'études et de recherches pédagogiques, Institut supérieur de technologie, and Institut d'études éducatives et sociales. [1] [2] [3] The university is the only public university in Luxembourg. [3] [4]
Description
The university has three campuses: the Belval Campus, the Kirchberg Campus, and the Limpertsberg Campus. [4]
The university is governed by a board of governors, a rector, and a university council. [5] The current rector of the University of Luxembourg is Jens Kreisel. [6]
Academics
The university offers seventeen bachelor's degrees , forty-six master's degrees , and doctorates . [4] [3] Bachelor's degrees require a semester abroad . The university also offers sixteen vocational training and lifelong learning training courses. [4]
The university is multilingual . Courses are generally taught in two languages, being French and English or French and German. Some courses are taught in three languages and some courses are taught entirely in English. [4]
The university has three faculties, the Faculty of Science, Technology, and Medicine; the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance; and the Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, and three interdisciplinary centres, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust; the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine; and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. [4] All the faculties offer baccalaureate, masters, doctoral, and vocational programs. [1]
COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Luxembourg as part of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic , the university switched to remote learning and later hybrid learning . [7] [8]
Demographics
As of March 2021, the University of Luxembourg enrollment was 6,783 students, 950 doctoral candidates, 2,245 staff, 1,420 academic staff, and 283 professors. [9]
In 2021, the university had 4,858 had full-time equivalent students and a student–staff ratio of 19. [10] In 2021, 51% of students at the university were international students . [10]
Rankings
University rankings | |
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Global – Overall | |
ARWU World [11] | 601-700 (2020) |
CWTS World [12] | 907 (2020-2021) |
THE World [13] | 201-250 (2020) |
USNWR Global [14] | 653 (2021) |
In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Luxembourg number 653 in Best Global Universities and number 227 in Best Global Universities in Europe. [14]
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked the University of Luxembourg 201–250 in their 2020 World University Rankings and 12 in their 2020 Young University Rankings. [10] [15]
The Academic Ranking of World Universities , also known as the Shanghai Ranking, ranked the University of Luxembourg 601-700 in their 2020 rankings. [16] [17]
The Center for World University Rankings ranked the University of Luxembourg 907 in their 2020-2021 World University Rankings. [18]
Research
In March 2021, the University of Luxembourg had 1,000 ongoing research projects and 114 Horizon 2020 projects. In 2020, university researchers produced 2,104 publications. [9]
Notable people
The University of Luxembourg has more than 11,000 alumni. [9]
Notable faculty
- Alex Biryukov (Cryptographer) [19]
- Robert Brisart (Philosopher) [20]
- Emile Haag (Historian, national president of the confederation of government employees) [21]
- Dietmar Heidemann (Philosopher) [22]
- Norbert von Kunitzki ( Economist , businessman and university president) [23]
- Jean-Paul Lehners (Historian) [24]
- Martin Schlichenmaier (Mathematician) [26]
- Emma Schymanski (Chemist, environmental engineer) [27]
- François Tavenas (Engineer and academic) [28]
- Leon van der Torre (Computer scientist) [29]
- Renée Wagener (Journalist, sociologist, historian, and former politician) [30]
- Volker Zotz ( Philosopher , religious studies scholar, Buddhologist ) [31]
Notable alumni
- Djuna Bernard ( Luxembourger politician) [32]
- Amin Mekki Medani (Sudanese lawyer, diplomat, human rights and political activist) [33]
- Jean-Paul Pier (Mathematician) [34]
- Jean-François Rischard [35] (Economist, World Bank vice president) [36]
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- ↑ Université du Luxembourg. "Martin Schlichenmaier" .
- ↑ Luxembourg, Université du. "Emma Schymanski" . University of Luxembourg . Retrieved 2022-06-02 .
- ↑ "Francois Tavenas, 1942-2004" . New Civil Engineer . 2004-03-01 . Retrieved 2022-06-02 .
- ↑ "Leon van der Torre" . icr.uni.lu . Retrieved 2022-06-02 .
- ↑ "Renée Wagener au conseil d'administration de 100,7" . paperjam.lu . Retrieved 2022-06-02 .
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- ↑ "Djuna Bernard" . Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg (in French). Archived from the original on 8 October 2020 . Retrieved 11 October 2020 .
- ↑ "Amin Mekki Medani - Bio, News, Photos" . Washington Times . Archived from the original on 2019-02-02 . Retrieved 2018-10-02 .
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External links
- Official website (in French)
- Official website (in German)
- Official website (in English)
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