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The Freshman College at the Academy of Ruhr-University Bochum
Your preparation for studying “Made in Germany” – in the heart of Europe
Ruhr-University Bochum
Located in the heart of the dynamic Ruhr metropolitan region in the heart of Europe, Ruhr-University Bochum with its 21 faculties is home to around 40,000 students and a driving force for social change.
The Ruhr-University was built to bring about change: It set out to overcome boundaries between people, between subjects and between science and society. Our listed campus architecture ensures short distances, flat hierarchies and diverse encounters for almost 50,000 people from all over the world, so that new things are constantly being created here.
No other university has produced as many first-time graduates as Ruhr-University Bochum. It is the driving force behind the rise and transformation of a region that is now the densest and most exciting science region in Europe. A real laboratory for social change. A paradise for pioneers and innovation-driven people of all kinds.
Ruhr-University Bochum uses its diversity as a strength: it promotes the cooperation of all university members, regardless of gender, origin, skin color and religion.
Ruhr-University Bochum is open to people from all over the world and promotes the international exchange of students and teachers. It helps young people from a wide range of nations to integrate socially during their academic education and to feel at home in Bochum. Its global networks connect researchers with teams of experts around the world and make it easy to spend shorter or longer periods abroad during your studies.
The Ruhr Area
The Ruhr area is a unique mix of more than five million people and 53 cities. A mixture that cannot be found anywhere else in Europe. A mixture that makes the region one of the continent’s major metropolitan areas. The Ruhr region is a diverse place where big city meets green, culture meets old industry – and a place that has many surprises in store.
University Stronghold
With an area of just under 4,440 square kilometers, the “Ruhrgebiet” is one of the smaller regions in Germany. But nowhere else do more people live in this area. And almost one in 20 of them is a student – more than in any other German metropolis. No wonder, because with 22 universities and 50 non-university institutes, science forms a denser network than anywhere else in Germany and Europe!
Where Science and Business are closely intertwined
Where there are many young professionals, there is a lively start-up culture. In the Ruhr area, this culture not only meets a dense scientific network, but also an industry rich in tradition. Here, continuity and solid economic activity meet an innovation-driven mindset. This creates unique synergies and dynamics for future-oriented structural change in the Ruhr area.
Deep in the West
By the way: According to a survey by the British opinion research institute Censuswide, Bochum is the most hospitable city in Germany and scores highly for its politeness and helpfulness towards visitors and strangers.
The renowned “Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft” also attests Bochum a top position for affordable student accommodation in its student accommodation report. As a result, people in Bochum have a particularly good reason to celebrate. And that in turn makes Bochum the ultimate party city with countless clubs and pubs around the famous Bochum Bermuda3eck. And if you get bored of what’s on offer locally, other major cities such as Düsseldorf and Cologne are just an hour away by train.