Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences
| Hochschule Rhein-Waal | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 2009 |
| President | Dr. Heide Naderer |
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| Students | 5313 |
| Location | Kleve, Kamp-Lintfort, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Website | www |
Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule Rhein-Waal) or HSRW, is a public university with an international orientation. The university opened for the winter semester of 2009/10 and reached full size in 2013, with about 5,000 students. The university has two campuses: in Kleve and in Kamp-Lintfort. The name for the university has been adopted from the German river Rhine and Dutch river Waal. The area between these two rivers have joined to a combined development group. 'Euregio Rhine-Waal'. The university is one of the group's projects. The current President of the university is Dr. Heide Naderer.
The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia organized a competition for the creation of three new Universities on 28 May 2008. The applicants were Kleve and the "We-4"-cities (Kamp-Lintfort, Moers, Neukirchen and Rheinberg), but the concept of separate universities was discarded. Instead, in November 2008, the responsibility was assigned jointly to the two competing candidates Kleve and Kamp-Lintfort, to establish a bipolar university. In April 2009, Prof. Dr. Marie-Louise Klotz was appointed President and Prof. Dr. Martin Goch as Vice President of the university. The official founding date of the University was 1 May 2009.
In the winter semester 2009/2010, students were able to enroll in Kamp-Lintfort for the first three courses: International Business and Social Sciences, Bio Science and Health, and E-Government .
The university soon offered 25 Bachelor's degree courses and 3 Master's degree courses, taught either in English (70 percent of programs) or in German, in the four faculties Technology and Bionics (Kleve), Life Sciences(Kleve), Society and Economics (Kleve) and Communication and Environment (Kamp-Lintfort). The overall target is to offer 29 bachelor and five master's degree programs. The study periods for Bachelor and Master courses are 7 semesters and 3 semesters respectively.
In 2015 founding president Prof. Dr. Marie Klotz was replaced by Dr. Heide Naderer.
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