TU Dresden’s faculties of  Electrical and Computer Engineering, of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, of Mechanical Engineering, the Institute of Media and Communication and the Institute of Business Management earned excellent positions in the current “Diverse Excellence” university ranking of the Center of University Development (CHE).

The new ranking of „Diverse Excellence“ not only attests German universities excellence in the field of research, but also evaluates the application of the research, internationality and student orientation. Thus it becomes clear quickly that diversity is the strength of the German university system.

TU Dresden is one of the few universities in Germany to excel over all dimensions – it ranks in top positions in the subjects of Psychology, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

Professor Klaus Janschek, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, comments the excellent rating: “We are very pleased to see our efforts for a high-quality, modern and international education and research fall on fertile ground and to be honoured accordingly. After a top position in the research rating ETIT of the Science Council, we were awarded yet another top position. The successful launch of our diploma course of regenerative energy systems in the winter semester 2011/2012 in cooperation with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is another indicator that we have our finger on the pulse of time and are acting accordingly.”

Professor Clemens Kirschbaum, spokesperson for the subject of Psychology, is also pleased with the result: „The current CHE university ranking proves that the Psychology department in Dresden is a top institute in Germany. To reach the top group in all four dimensions ‘research, application of research, internationality and student orientation’ it takes the effort of a team whose members all set the highest standard of research and teaching.”

The new extra evaluation of the CHE university ranking uses data that were accumulated for the rankings in 2010 and 2011 from the universities for linguistics and cultural sciences, law, economics and social sciences as well as engineering. Different indicators from the ranking were put together for the dimensions research, internationality, application of research and student orientation.
All results can be found in the CHE working paper # 149 titled „Vielfältige Exzellenz 2011 – Forschung – Anwendungsorientierung – Internationalität – Studierendenorientierung im CHE Ranking“ and are available for free download at www.che.de/vielfaeltige-exzellenz.

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Claudia Vojta
24th November 2011