Archive for August, 2008

RWTH Aachen University

It is reasonable to mention RWTH Aachen University while speaking about the higher education in Germany. It is one of the largest universities located in Aachen. RWTH stands for Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule. This university is a part of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and one of the leading research universities in Germany.

This university is considered to be prestigious not only in Germany, but also in whole Europe. It focuses on technological studies, electrical and mechanical engineering, especially.

Specialists from the Aachen University always take the best positions and best workplace. Thus, there is a great number of specialists working at such prominent corporations as Microsoft, Ford, United Technologies, Ericsson or Philips. Moreover, the researches of the RWTH Aachen University help to some starting up companies to win the market and to become competitive ones.

Aachen University has great connections with the following institutions: Top Industrial Managers for Europe network and the IDEA League, namely TU Delft, RWTH Aachen University, Imperial College London, ETH Zürich and ParisTech.

When the person graduates from RWTH Aachen University, he or she never has any problems with the perspective work place finding, he or she is welcomed anywhere. This fact makes Aachen University very popular for the foreign students.

Education in Germany

Speaking about education in Germany, one should mention that the higher educational system is presented mainly by the public colleges and universities; the amount of private colleges and universities is very limited.

The attention mostly paid to the model of education than to the research work. If speaking about the higher education in whole, one can mention that the main distinctive feature of it is mobility. Students have right to choose several universities at one and the same time, as they do not have fixed classes, they can change several educational institutions during the years of the education; it gives some freedom to the education in Germany, which one is not able to find in the United States of America or in France.

After graduating form school, everybody can opt to enter the university; however, all males have to serve in military or alternative service in the duration of 9 months.

The majority of courses are given an opportunity to receive Master’s degree; it is given after 4 or 5 years of education. In order to receive doctoral degree, one should take additional courses, which last in the duration of three or five years. During this period one should not attend classes, he or she is making his or her own research.