Paderborn University is a campus university with 14 700 students (as of the winter semester of 2005/2006) and a medium-sized German university. She has cooperative relations with more than 30 institutions of higher learning around the world. Paderborn University has more than 65,438+0,000 staff members-including technicians, lecturers and 206 professors, who offer 65,438+0,007 professional directions. There were only 4,000 students at the beginning of the school, and now it is close to 15000.
The motto of the school is: university in the information age (Die Universit? Information Center. The key disciplines of the university are: informatics, economics, engineering, mathematics, humanities and sociology (including English literature, Germanic literature and history). The largest college is the College of Humanities and Culture, with about 5,000 students and 70 professors (as of the summer semester of 2004/2005).
In particular, the Department of Information Science ranked first (third) in the ranking list of German universities (CHE/Die Zeit) in 2006, and the Department of Economic Information was also in the leading position in the ranking list in 2005. In addition, in the ranking of 2005, the department of British and American literature of this university was rated as the best in Germany.