Universität Kassel
Two locations: Kassel, Witzenhausen


About the University
Founded in 1971 as a model university, the University Kassel updates the thoughts that the philosopher Karl Jaspers has formulated as the "concept of the university" in 1946, just after World War II: "The university requires three things: training for particular jobs, education, and research.
The university is technical college, educational entity, and research institution.
An Either-Or has been imposed between these three possibilities. Within the 'concept of the university', however, these purposes constitute an inseparable unity. These purposes may not be separated from each other without both destroying the spiritual substance of the university and becoming stunted themselves. All three purposes are elements of a living whole. "The University Kassel, with its 17,000 students, 2,200 employees, its 18 departments, its institutes and its academic centres, offers academic programmes with various admission and degree opportunities like Bachelor and Masters. The Hessen International Summer University (ISU) has become an internationally oriented
academic institution.

Departments

• Educational Science, Humanities, Music
  
• Language and Literature: English, Romance and German
• Social Services
  
• Social Sciences, Geography, Sports Science
  
• asl: Architecture, City Planning, Landscape Planning
  
• Business and Economics, Psychology
  
• Ecological Agriculture
  
• Civil Engineering
  
• Mechanical Engineering
  
• Electrical Engineering / Information Science
  
• Mathematics / Information Science
  
• Natural Science - Physics, Biology, Chemistry
  
• School of Art
  

Prominent students

The Lauenstein Brothers, graduates of the film department, were the first to win
an Oscar in Hollywood for Germany in 1990. Two further students,
Thomas Stellmach and Tyron Montgomery, repeated this achievement in 1997.

Statistics (2009)

• Year of foundation . . . . . . . . . .   1971
• Number of students . . . . . . . . . 19,291
• Foreign students . . . . . . . . . . .    2,160
• Professors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    291
  

Universität Kassel
Akademisches Auslandsamt

Mönchebergstrasse 19
D-34109 Kassel
Phone: +49 (0)561 / 804 2103
Fax: +49 (0)561 / 804 3513
e-mail:aaa@uni-kassel.de

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