About Kiel University and the Faculty of Engineering
Kiel University
Founded in 1665 by Christian Albrecht, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Kiel Univesity is the largest University in the state of Schleswig Holstein and ranked within the Top 30 Universities in Germany. Today more than 25.000 Students are enrolled in one of over 180 degree programms, around 2500 of them study at the Faculty of Engineering. Kiel University focuses on four core research areas: Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science, Kiel Marine Science, Kiel Life Science and Environmental and Cultural Change and Life Sciences.
The Faculty of Engineering
the three Institutes of the Faculty are participating in numerous research projects, Competence Centers as well as in the Cluster of Excellence "Future Ocean"
Research at the Faculty of Engineering is conducted at the highest level, also in an international comparison. Students and doctoral candidates receive a comprehensive, advanced and modern education. Cooperation with industrial partners in numerous sectors verify how current the ongoing research and teaching is.
Website made by international students for international students (Kiel)
In 2016, a project team of international students created a website for international students, that study or want to study at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.
Kiel is about 90 kilometres to the north of Hamburg and it is the capital city of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northern-most federal state.
At the end of 2015, the municipal registration office recorded a population of 246,269.
The city stretches around the Kiel Fjord. The port of Kiel is right in the city centre, opposite the main train station.
With approx. 1.8 million passengers (2015 statistics), Kiel port is the fifth largest passenger ship port in the whole of Germany. And once a year, always at the end of June, the world’s largest sailing event takes place in Kiel: : Die Kieler Woche
Enjoy watching these three wonderful image films about the City of Kiel! The films are great for providing a first impression of Kiel, its surroundings and other parts of Schleswig-Holstein!
1. 1. Image Film (Small Town Kiel, A day in the Life of Kiel, by René Raab)
2. 2. Image Film(Seehafen Kiel by KSK Media for the Port of Kiel Company
3. 3. Image Film (Kiel - Baltic Sea Cruise Ship Destinations | by DW
