# University of Wuppertal

The University of Wuppertal (Universität Wuppertal) is a German scientific institution located in Wuppertal in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The university's official name in German is Bergische Universität Wuppertal or BUW, founded in 1972. Around 2014 to 2015, approximately 20,000 students were enrolled in a wide range of subjects with many interdisciplinary linkages between a total of seven faculties.

## Organization

* Division A: humanities and cultural studies
* Division B: Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
* Division C: mathematics and natural sciences
* Division D: architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, safety
* Division E: electrical engineering, information technology, media technology
* Division F: design and art
* Division G: education and social sciences

## Campus

The main building of the University of Wuppertal is located in the suburb of Elberfeld on the Grifflenberg. The university now has three campuses:
* Campus Grifflenberg (main campus) in Elberfeld, Wuppertal
* Campus Freudenberg in Elberfeld, Wuppertal
* Campus Haspel in Unterbarmen, Wuppertal
All three campuses house specific parts of the University Library of Wuppertal; the main library at Campus Grifflenberg holds five specific libraries.
From 2004 until 2010, the University of Wuppertal was home to the second supercomputer at a German university. ALiCEnext, the supercomputer, was designed as a cluster and consisted of 512 so-called Blades. ALiCEnext was used in the field of elementary particle physics, applied computer science, astro-particle physics and experimental high energy physics.

## Notable professors

The university employs more than 250 professors (as of 2014). Notable people who have taught in Wuppertal are:
* Bazon Brock, art theorist
* Gerd Faltings, mathematician
* Jürgen Gerlach [de], transport planner
* Klaus Held, philosopher and founder of the philosophical seminar
* Lev Kopelev, writer and historian of literature
* Karl-Heinz Petzinka, architect
* Dieter Vieweger, archaeologist
* Paul J. J. Welfens, economist (current)

## Notable alumni

* Christian Boros (born 1964), German advertising agency founder and art collector
* Godela Habel, abstract painter
* Walter Heidenfels, industrial designer

## Awards and rankings
### Rankings

According to the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the institution falls within the 501–600 range globally, placing it between 42nd and 45th nationally. The 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) situates the university in the 801–900 bracket on a global scale corresponding to a national rank between 43rd and 45th.
In 2016, CWUR ranked the University of Wuppertal as the 909th best university overall within its list of top 1000 international universities. In 2017, its place rose to 844th in the same list.

### National rankings

At the CHE ranking which evaluated more than 300 universities in the German-speaking world on the basis of the judgments of more than 250,000 students, the University of Wuppertal was awarded three times. In 2011, the university reached the top group in eleven of the 13 categories. With a total score of 1.9, the Faculty of Economics was above the nationwide average of 2.6.