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The Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus- Senftenberg was founded in 1991 and is the top technical university in Brandenburg, Germany. Located in Cottbus, in English it is often called Technical University of Cottbus or TU Cottbus. In, the University had 112 professors, 594 academic staff and 6,972 students, of which 1,234 are of foreign origin from 89 nations.HistoryThe university has been a school for construction engineering in the former GDR starting from 1954. After the German reunification the school became a Technical University and was finally renamed into Brandenburg Technical University in 1994. In the following years the university has undergone major construction efforts and the number of students has continuously grown ever since. In February 2013 the Landtag of Brandenburg decided to fuse the BTU and the Hochschule Lausitz on July 1, 2013 to found the new university Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (abbreviation: BTU).StructureThe University is separated into 4 faculties each of them having a focus on certain study and research areas. Each faculty is further subdivided into departments . The following faculties exist: Faculty 1: Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Computer Science Faculty 2: Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning Faculty 3: Mechanical, Electrical and Industrial Engineering Faculty 4: Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering Faculty 5: Engineering and Computer Science Faculty 6: Natural Sciences Faculty 7: Business Administration and Social Sciences, Music Education Faculty 8: Construction
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