# Mainz University of Applied Sciences

The Mainz University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule Mainz), is a 1971-founded university located in Mainz, in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The University of Applied Sciences Mainz consists of three faculties: School of Technology, School of Design and School of Business. The common feature of all fields of study is the practical orientation of the university, the short periods of study and the internationally orientated courses.

## History and profile

The Mainz University of Applied Sciences stands in the long tradition of two educational institutions from the Electoral Mainz and the Grand Ducal Darmstadt. On the one hand the craftsman drawing school founded 1841 in Mainz (1933 renamed in State School of Arts and Crafts, 1939 dissolved), whose origin can be seen in the 1757 founded Electoral Academy of Painting and Sculpture. On the other hand, the Grand Ducal State Construction School founded in 1876 in Darmstadt (1933 renamed in the State Building School), in 1936 relocated from Darmstadt to Mainz as Adolf-Hitler-Building School.
After the Second World War, the Staatsbauschule und Landeskunstschule was officially reopened on October 3, 1946, in the Auditorium Maximum of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as the succession institution of the State Building School and the State School of Arts and Crafts.
In 1971 the University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Palatinate was founded. In the year of 1996 the Mainz University of Applied Sciences was re-established as an independent university with three faculties: School of Engineering, School of Design and School of Business.
At the Mainz University of Applied Sciences a wide variety of study programs is offered, for example in architecture, civil engineering, geospatial and surveying, real estate project management, interior design, communication design, media design, technical building management, and economics (e.g. business management, international business, business law, career Integrating economics, economic computer science).
In 2009, the School of Business, the School of Engineering and the university's administration moved to a new location west of the city, named "Campus".

## Teaching and Research
### Degree Programs

These study programs are divided into the three following faculties:
* School of Engineering
* School of Design
* School of Business
The faculties are also divided in separate courses of studies:
The faculty of Engineering offers:
* Architecture
* Civil Engineering
* Geoinformatics & Surveying
The faculty of Design offers:
* Communication Design
* Media Design
* Interior Architecture
The faculty of Business offers:
* Business administration & international business
* Business law
* Information management
At the time of summer semester 2008, all graduate programs at the University of Applied Sciences were converted on the Bologna Process to the international bachelor and master degrees.

### Institutes at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences

Source:
* i3mainz: Institute for spatial information and surveying technology.
* ai-mainz: Institute for Architecture Mainz.
* iS-mainz: Institute for sandwich technology - Mainz.
* Img: Institute for media design.
* Design lab Gutenberg: Institute as an interface between research and teaching of communication design.
* IUH: Institute for entrepreneurial action.
* IFAMS: Institute for applied management science and social entrepreneurship.
* FGKU: The Research Group Municipal and Environmental Economics (FGKU).

## Faculties and departments

Location Campus Lucy-Hillebrand-Straße 49°59′03″N 8°13′42″E﻿ / ﻿49.98417°N 8.22833°E﻿ / 49.98417; 8.22833 (Bretzenheim)
* School of Engineering with the departments Geoinformatics and Surveying
* School of Business consisting of the departments business administration, business law and information management
Location Holzstraße 49°59′50″N 8°16′45″E﻿ / ﻿49.99722°N 8.27917°E﻿ / 49.99722; 8.27917 (city center)
* School of Technology with the departments Architecture, Civil Engineering
* School of Design with the departments Communication Design, Media Design and Interior Architecture

## Services
### Library

The library is currently situated at the two locations: Campus and Holzstraße. The libraries at these locations provide the media for each faculty situated there: economics at the location at Campus; engineering and design at the location Holzstraße.
The libraries provide books, journals, electronic media and videos for the each subject areas taught at the University of Applied Sciences. In addition, it offers daily and weekly newspapers, general reference books etc. The inventory is as a rule freely accessible to everyone. Exceptions are CDs, DVDs, videos, DIN standards.

### AStA

The Mainz University of Applied Sciences has also an AStA. The General Students' Committee (German: Allgemeiner Studierendenausschuss) or AStA, is the acting executive board and the external representing agency of the (constituted) student body at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences. It is therefore considered the student government and student representative organization. The AStA is separating in following sectors: administration, office, finance, executive board, university policy, international subjects, culture, light and sound, public relation, social matters, sport, traffic and directorate. They have an International Consultant for the special needs of foreign students. Furthermore, they offer social advice. The AStA also organize parties for the first year students and for the whole University.