Technische Hochschule Brandenburg

The Technical University of Brandenburg ( THB ) is a state university of applied sciences in Brandenburg a der Havel. It was founded in 1992 as a University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg ( FHB ), with which the city of Brandenburg became the first university city. The site of the Brandenburg University of Technology is located on a campus in the Old Town district, a former barracks complex from the 19th century. About 2,650 students are supervised by about 260 employees of the university. The focus of the study program in three subject areas focuses on the so-called MINT subjects.

Altogether in the winter semester, 2015/16 2614 students were enrolled at the Fachhochschule Brandenburg. 845 students were female, which corresponds to a rate of 32.2 per cent. The proportion of foreign students at the university was 12.3 per cent for a total of 321 students.

 He was regularly at the University of Applied Sciences Brandenburg between seven and ten per cent. The Fachhochschule students were looked after by 240 university employees, of whom 67 were professors, 74 scientific and 99 non-academic staff. With 9 female professors, the proportion of women was 13.4 per cent. He was 48.6 per cent of the scientific staff and 49.5 per cent of the non-academic staff. 2 of the professorial posts were endowed professorships.

The research profile of the University of Applied Sciences has been developed since its founding by the development of various laboratory facilities and study programs. The research projects are published regularly every two years in the research report. 

 In December 2009, in the context of the target agreements for the years 2010 to 2012, the main activities between the University of Applied Sciences and the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture were focused on the three main areas of health - medical informatics - telemedicine, the energy efficiency of technical systems and enterprise security. 

Due to the range of courses offered, these focal areas are each assigned to a leading department but are used interdisciplinarily in all three subject areas. external funding could the university in 2014 solicit for a total budget of 19.9 million EUR 5 million euros for projects.