Jacobs University Bremen

Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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Jacobs University Bremen (previously International University Bremen, IUB) is a highly selective, top-ranked, private, independent research university in Bremen, Germany. Jacobs University Bremen is an English-speaking higher education institution. Jacobs University combines aspects from the American and German academic systems to form an environment with a “transdisciplinary” approach between diverse disciplines and subject areas.

Jacobs University was founded in 1999 as the ‘International University Bremen (IUB)’ but changed its name early in 2007 in recognition of the philanthropist Klaus Johann Jacobs, whose donation allowed IUB to avoid bankruptcy. The university developed from an initial collaboration between the local government of the city-state of Bremen, the University of Bremen and Rice University, USA.

On November 1, 2006 the current President, Joachim Treusch, announced a donation to university by the Jacobs Foundation of 15 million € per year during the following 5 years. It is the biggest private donation ever made to a German university. The Jacobs Foundation plans to make another donation of 125 million € in 2011. This donation is conditional on the university’s achievements up to this point. In 2010, President Treusch announced that the lump sum was to be split in smaller installments totaling up to 75 million € which are to be donated to the university in decreasing yearly installments up to 2017.

Jacobs University Bremen alumni association was founded in 2004 by the university’s pioneer graduating class. Since then, the number of Jacobs alumni has increased more than tenfold from 130 to over 1,500, about 80 % of which have joined the alumni association. To provide a legal framework for the alumni’s participation in shaping the university’s future, the Jacobs University Bremen Alumni & Friends GmbH was founded in 2008. Co-owned by the alumni association (99%) and the university (1 %), the company became one of Jacobs University’s three shareholders.

Courses offered
Undergraduate Programs

Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology
Integrated Social Sciences
Intercultural Relations and Behavior
International Politics and History
Integrated Cultural Studies (replaced Literature and New Media and History and Theory of Art and Literature in 2009)
Global Economics and Management
Integrated Environmental Studies
BSc Majors in the School of Engineering and Sciences:
Applied and Computational Mathematics
Biochemical Engineering
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biology and Neuroscience
Chemistry
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science
Earth and Space Sciences
International Logistics Management and Engineering
Mathematics
Physics

Graduate Programs

Global Visual Communication
Intercultural Humanities
International Relations
Modern Global History
PhD Courses