University of Ulm - Internationality & Ranking

Internationality & Ranking

The first phase of the development of the GUC with support of the University of Ulm can be judged as finished highly successfully. On the occasion of the celebration of 5 years GUC at the universities Ulm and Stuttgart the partners could be proud of the reached position: In winter semester 2008/2009 nearly 6.800 students are studying at the GUC on an extensive campus with a new building opened recently. In October 2008, the first class in engineering and in pharmacy and biotechnology graduated together with the second class in management technology. Now there are already around 800 GUC graduates who have very good job chances nationally and internationally. Professor Ashraf Mansour, Prime Founder of the GUC and Honorary Senator of the University of Ulm, got the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution to the German-Egyptian relations.

Near East/Egypt:

In October 2008 the 25 years old exchange with Cairo University was celebrated by a conference titled »Science for Life« with the presence of an Ulm delegation headed by Vicepresident Prof. Dr. Dürre. The long-lasting collaboration was the basis for the Ulm participation in the »German-Egyptian Science Year 2007« and the follow-ups in 2008

China :

The successful cooperation with Chinese partner universities was strengthened. Chinese partners send doctoral students predominantly to the University of Ulm with own scholarships and thus start building up a lasting research cooperation. The »International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine Ulm«, financed by the Excellence Initiative, held the second successful Summer Academy in Wuhan at the campus of the partner university HUST, sponsored by the DAAD. In September 2008 the first Ulm Alumni Clubs have been founded with the presence of an Ulm delegation headed by the Vice-President Professor Stadtmüller at the HUST Tongji Medical Faculty and at the SEU in Nanjing.