Bauhaus University, Weimar

Location

The Bauhaus University is located in Weimar Germany. Weimar is a very fabulous city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately 80 kilometers southeast of Leipzig, 170 kilometers north of Nuremberg and 170 kilometers west of Druden. The city was a focal point of the German Enlightenment and home of the leading personalities of the literary genre of Weimar Classicism, the writers Johann Wolfgang Von Gothe and Friedrich Schiller. Two World Heritage sites converge in Weimar: The Classical Weimar World Heritage Site and The Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau World Heritage Site. Weimar has a great variety of museums: Gothe’s Garden House, The Schiller Museum, The Gothe National Museum, and many more. The city’s main church is the evangelical St. Peter and Paul at Herderplatz.

Campus

With faculties and areas of study such as Architecture and Urbanism, Art and Design, Civil Engineering and Media, the Bauhaus University Weimar has a distinctive identity within the German University Landscape. The Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism with its discipline of architecture and urbanism and additional study courses offers a well-rounded education program. The Faculty of Civil Engineering has provided five decades (that is 50 years) of well established and renowned education in the field of Engineering. Due to recent structural changes in the business world, the teaching-research program of the faculty has been considerably extended and adjusted to meet new requirements, based on the complex structure of faculty, which is unique in Germany. With over 5000m² of usable floor space, the library houses a collection of approximately 4,88,500 books and other media. After a four-year construction phase costing 4 million euros, the new University library opened in 2005 and in 2006, the building was awarded the Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban planning.

Residing Options

Furnished rooms are available for rent in student housing. They are all single rooms provided kitchens and bathrooms are generally shared. The minimum rental period is 6 months. Shorter rental periods are possible but the rent is more expansive. Many students in Weimar live in shared flats (WG) in which two or more students can share a room. In a WG, you have a good conditioned room in a large flat with a shared bathroom and kitchen. The room price depends upon the size and the total rental costs for the flat.

Faculty

The University ahs Faculty to student ratio of about 1:7. There are 4,072 students in the University. The Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism represents the largest portion of the student's body with its 1,131 students followed by the Faculty of Civil Engineering with 1,101 students. From faculty, there are 70 professors and 15 junior professors. From 4,073 students, 26.7% are international students. The national average is 12.3% while at the Bauhaus University it is almost 27%.