Freiberg University of Mining and Technology

The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (usually translated from German as Freiberg University of Mining and Technology or Freiberg Mining Academy, University of Technology) is a German university of technology with about 4,300 students in the city of Freiberg, Saxony. It was established in 1765 by Prince Franz Xaver, regent of Saxony, based on plans by Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel and Friedrich Anton von Heynitz, and is the oldest university of mining and metallurgy in the world. The chemical elements indium (1863) and germanium (1886) were discovered by scientists of Freiberg University. The polymath Alexander von Humboldt studied mining at the Bergakademie from 1791 to 1792.

TU Bergakademie Freiberg
MottoThe University of Resources
Established1765
ChancellorJens Then
PresidentKlaus-Dieter Barbknecht
Students4,294 (WS 2017/18)[1]
Location
Freiberg
,
Saxony
Websitetu-freiberg.de
TU Bergakademie campus, April 2007

Today, TU Bergakademie Freiberg is a highly specialized university of technology comprising six faculties: mathematics and informatics; chemistry, biology and physics; geoscience, geoengineering and mining; mechanical engineering; material sciences; and economics.

Programs

The university offers programs taught in German as well as international programs entirely taught in English. Admission to all programs from Bachelor through PhD is performance-based and without tuition fees (as usual for consecutive studies at German public universities); students only pay a registration fee of about €94 per semester.

English-language programs include the master's programs in:

  • Sustainable and Innovative Natural Resource Management SINReM
  • Advanced Mineral Resources Development
  • Groundwater Management
  • Sustainable Mining and Remediation Management
  • Computational Materials Science
  • Computational Science and Engineering
  • Mechanical and Process Engineering
  • Metallic Materials Technology
  • International Business in Developing and Emerging Markets – IBDEM

Freiberg University of Mining and Technology has been ranked among the best universities worldwide for mining engineering.[2]

Though a public university, it has a relatively large private endowment. The university is home to one of the largest German university foundations.[3]

Student body

Freiberg is a highly international university. Among its 4,061 students in 2018, 24% were foreign students. There are double degree agreements with universities in China, France, Ghana, Italy, Poland, Russia, Thailand and others. About 30% of the doctoral degrees awarded by the university are given to foreign students.[1]

References
  1. "Kennzahlen und Rankings | TU Bergakademie Freiberg". tu-freiberg.de.
  2. QS World University Rankings, 2017. https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2017/engineering-mineral-mining. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  3. Michael Bartsch: Geldsegen für Freiberg. taz, 24. Januar 2007, abgerufen am 11. August 2009.


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