Chemnitz Technical University or Chemnitz Technical University [1] (self-name of the university on the official website, German Technische Universität Chemnitz ) is a higher educational institution in Chemnitz , Germany . It was created on the basis of the craft school and in 1878 was renamed the “Technical State Educational Institutions of Chemnitz”. In 1986, it was renamed to its current name. The University is the third largest university in Saxony .
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| Year of foundation | 1836 |
| Type of | state |
| Rector | Arnold van Suhl |
| Students | 10,956 (2012) proportion of women: 44.7% |
| Foreign students | 1,154 |
| Location | Chemnitz (Saxony) |
| Site | tu-chemnitz.de |
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Facts and Figures
The university’s budget is € 138.9 million (2012).
TUK includes 8 faculties. More than 10,000 students study at a technical university , of which more than 1000 are foreign students from more than 70 countries, including Russia.
Organization
Faculties
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Faculty of Mathematics
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Electrical and Information Technology
- Faculty of Computer Science
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Celebrities
- Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold , one of the inventors of the thermos
- Derbenev, Pavel Nikanorovich , a large textile, oil and coal industrialist of the late XIX - early XX centuries., In 1894-1905. - the mayor of Ivanovo-Voznesensk studied at the Academy in the 70s of the XIX century.