Clausthal University of Technology
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1775 |
| Rector | Prof. Dr. Thomas Hanschke |
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Administrative staff
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~1.000 Professors: ~90 Scientific Assistants: ~410 |
| Students | 4.080 (WS 2011/12) 1.165 International Students |
| Location |
Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony,  Germany
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| Website | www.tu-clausthal.de |
The Clausthal University of Technology (German: Technische Universität Clausthal, also referred to as TU Clausthal or TUC) is an institute of technology (Technische Universität) in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany.
The small public university is regularly ranked among the Top German universities in engineering by CHE University Rankings. More than 30% of students and 20% of academic staff come from abroad, making it one of the most international universities in Germany.
The university is best known for the prominent corporate leaders among its former students. In 2011, five of the 30 leading companies within the German stock index had alumni of TUC on their management board. Two of them as CEO.
The Department of Computational Intelligence is hosting the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest.
The academy of the local Hanoverian mining authority was established in 1775 at Clausthal in the Harz mountain range with its centuries-long history of mining in the Upper Harz (most notably at the Rammelsberg). Initially a school for pitmen and smelter workers, it was raised to the status of a mining college by the Westphalian minister Count Hans von Bülow in 1810. In 1864, at the behest of King George V of Hanover, the spin-off of a mining academy (Bergakademie) was founded.
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