Reputation
According to the Ranking of Scientific Impact of Leading European Research Universities, an official document compiled by the European Commission, Karlsruhe ranks 2nd nationally and 6th in Europe in terms of scholarly impact.
With the exception of the department of biology, this university receives more funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft than any other university specializing in the natural sciences in Germany. However, when compared to Germany's other universities, the university receives average funding. In the engineering sciences (Computer Science, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering), the university is in the top three together with University of Stuttgart and the RWTH Aachen. It also consistently ranks top in the course business engineering and management, concerning the overall study situation as well as popularity with employers. However, the university is not in the top twenty in the subject of mathematics.
More than 20% of its students are attracted from other nations and 0.6% of its students receive grants from the German Studienstiftung (German National Academic Foundation). In 1998, ScienceWatch ranked its chemistry faculty as belonging to "the cream of the crop in chemistry" internationally.
In 2006, the University of Karlsruhe was chosen to be one of the first three universities with the best future concept within the scope of the German Universities Excellence Initiative. These universities have been called "elite universities" in general public and media from that day on.
For many years the department for Computer Science has been the number one institution in this field in Germany. Hence, the University of Karlsruhe has established international reputation.
In the 2011 QS World University Rankings the university was ranked 147th in the world, two places above the German university Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Its subject rankings were 51st in Engineering and IT and 67th in Natural Sciences.
It was ranked 13th in the world for Mechanical Engineering by the Taiwan Rankings.
In the 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university was ranked 151st in the world. This equals the 63rd rank in Europe and the 8th rank in Germany.
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