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University of Luxembourg

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University of Luxembourg
Université du Luxembourg (French)
Universität Luxemburg (German)
Universitéit Lëtzebuerg (Luxembourgish)
TypePublic university
Established2003
RectorJens Kreisel
Academic staff
1,500 (2023)
Students7,000 (2023)
1,000 (2023)
Location
Luxembourg
Websiteuni.lu

The University of Luxembourg (French: Université du Luxembourg; German: Universität Luxemburg; Luxembourgish: Universitéit Lëtzebuerg) is a public research university in Luxembourg.

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History

The University of Luxembourg was founded in 2003 by combining four existing education and research institutes: the Centre universitaire, Institut supérieur d'études et de recherches pédagogiques, Institut supérieur de technologie, and Institut d'études éducatives et sociales.[1][2][3] The university is the only public university in Luxembourg.[3][4]

Description

The main building of the University of Luxembourg campus in Limpertsberg

The university has three campuses: the Belval Campus, the Kirchberg Campus, and the Limpertsberg Campus.[4]

The university is governed by a board of governors, a rector, and a university council.[5] The current rector of the University of Luxembourg is Jens Kreisel.[6]

Academics

An aerial image of the University of Luxembourg campus in Kirchberg

The university offers 18 bachelor's degrees, 46 master's degrees, and doctorates.[3][4] Bachelor's degrees require a semester abroad. The university also offers vocational training and lifelong learning training courses.[4]

The university is multilingual. Courses are generally taught in two languages, being French and English or French and German. Some courses are taught in three, and some courses are taught entirely in English.[4] Some courses are also taught entirely in Luxembourgish.[7]

The University has three faculties, the Faculty of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance, and the Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, and ``four interdisciplinary centres: the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), and a new research centre dedicated to European law. All the faculties offer bachelor's and master's degree programs, doctoral, and vocational programs.[1]

COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Luxembourg as part of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the university switched to remote learning and later hybrid learning.[8][9]

Demographics

As of August 2023, the University of Luxembourg's enrollment was 7000 students, including 1000 doctoral candidates, 2,400 staff, and 293 professors and senior lecturers.[10]

In 2023, the university had 5,185 full-time equivalent students and a student–teacher ratio of 19.3. In 2023, 51% of students at the university were international students.

Rankings

University rankings
Global – Overall
ARWU World[11]601-700 (2023)
CWTS World[12]54 (2022)
THE World[13]201-250 (2023)
USNWR Global[14]570 (2023)

In 2023, U.S. News & World Report ranked the University of Luxembourg number 570 in Best Global Universities and number 227 in Best Global Universities in Europe.[15]

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked the University of Luxembourg 201–250 in their 2023 World University Ranking, 4th worldwide for its international outlook and 25th worldwide in their 2022 Young University Rankings.[16]

The Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the Shanghai Ranking, ranked the University of Luxembourg 601-700 in their 2023 rankings.[17]

The CWTS LEIDEN Ranking 2022 ranked the University of Luxembourg number 54 in the world among the universities with the 1% most cited publications in their field, in proportion of the number of articles published.[18]

Research

Research at the university focus on the areas of digital transformation, medicine and health, as well as sustainable and societal development.  A special focus is placed on interdisciplinary approaches. In 2020, the university founded the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), which primarily promotes interdisciplinary research projects.

Since creation in 2006, the university has been awarded 15 ERC grants and it has established 22 industrial, public and public-private chairs, with 16 endowed chairs ongoing.In March 2021, the University of Luxembourg had 1,000 ongoing research projects and 114 Horizon 2020 projects. In 2022, university researchers produced 2,438 publications.[10]

Notable people

The University of Luxembourg has more than 14,000 alumni.[10]

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

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