Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg

Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (German: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) better known as FAU is a public research university in the cities Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. University name Friedrich-Alexander came from the university's first founder Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and its benefactor Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

FAU is the second largest state university in the state Bavaria and largest one in the Northern Bavarian region, which is having five Schools, 312 chairs, and roughly 12,000 employees. There are roughly 35,473 students enrolled in 149 study programs in the university, of which about 2/3 are studying in Erlangen and remaining 1/3 in Nuremberg. There are also about 2,705 foreign students enrolled in the university.

In 2006 and 2007, in the line of the excellence initiative FAU was chosen by DFG as one of the winner in the German Universities Excellence Initiative. FAU is also a member of DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network.