University of Flensburg

The University of Flensburg (Europa-Universität Flensburg, EUF) is a university in the city of Flensburg, Germany. It was founded in 1994 and is the northernmost university in Germany. Although it has full university status and the right to award PhDs, Europa-Universität Flensburg mainly offers courses in education and other fields of the social sciences.

Europa Universität Flensburg
Europa-Universität Flensburg
TypePublic
Established1994
Budget€ 46.1 million[1]
PresidentWerner Reinhart
Academic staff
449[1]
Administrative staff
217[1]
Students5,285[1]
Location
Flensburg
,
Schleswig-Holstein
,
Germany

54°46′34″N 9°27′07″E
Websitewww.uni-flensburg.de

The university holds German-Danish undergraduate courses in cooperation with the University of Southern Denmark at Sønderborg, which involve an association with the Fachhochschule Flensburg.[2]

University of Flensburg

Academics

The university has around 450 academic staff and 200 administrative staff, as of 2022.[3]

In the winter semester 2006/2007, the university received around 4,200 applications for places, but in the winter semester of the previous academic year the number was only 2,566. At the top of the applications in the winter semester 2006/2007 was the B.A. course in Teaching Science, 1977 applicants, followed by the B.A. course in International Management with 547 candidates. The B.A. course in Science of the Communication and Teaching is discontinued. The B.A. course in Teaching Science and B.A. course in International Management have since been the only undergraduate programmes that the university offers.[4]

Campus
Flens-Arena, formerly Campushalle

Europa-Universität Flensburg shares a campus and some facilities with the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Flensburg). The infrastructure includes the Auditorium Maximum (called Audimax) lecture hall, the central library, a broad park area, student residences, a kindergarten, a sports and fitness centre, the cafeteria (Mensa), several small cafeterias and a student pub, a swimming pool and a campus chapel.[5]

Faculties

The university has three faculties, numbered Faculty I to Faculty III, each of which is divided into various institutes.[6] In 2018, it opened the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES), an institute focusing on the humanities subjects within European Studies.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Die EUF in Zahlen". Europa-Universität Flensburg (in German). Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  2. "Flensburg". sdu. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  3. "Zahlen und Fakten - Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF)". www.uni-flensburg.de (in German). Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  4. "Courses of Studies – Europa-Universität Flensburg". www.uni-flensburg.de. Archived from the original on 2 August 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  5. "Campusplan - Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF)". www.uni-flensburg.de (in German). Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  6. "Fakultäten - Europa-Universität Flensburg (EUF)". www.uni-flensburg.de (in German). Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  7. wal (13 May 2022). ""Die Antwort auf Trump" | SHZ". shz.de (in German). Retrieved 5 April 2023.
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