Brandenburg Technical University

Geschichte

The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg was founded in 1991 and is a technical university in Brandenburg, Germany with campuses in Cottbus and Senftenberg. The university has 197 professors, 629 additional academic staff and more than 8,000 students, of which 1,860 are of foreign origin from 111 nations.HistoryThe university has been a school for construction engineering in the former GDR starting from 1954. After the German reunification the school became a Technical University and was finally renamed into Brandenburg Technical University in 1994. In the following years the university has undergone major construction efforts and the number of students has continuously grown ever since. In February 2013 the Landtag of Brandenburg decided to fuse the BTU and the Hochschule Lausitz on July 1, 2013 to found the new university Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (abbreviated BTU).StructureThe university is separated into six faculties each of them having a focus on certain study and research areas. Each faculty is further subdivided into institutes . The following faculties exist: Faculty 1: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Faculty 2: Environment and Natural Sciences Faculty 3: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Energy Systems Faculty 4: Social Work, Health Care and Music Faculty 5: Business, Law and Social Sciences Faculty 6: Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning