Ruhr University
Ruhr University Bochum (German: Ruhr-Universität Bochum; colloquial: Ruhr-Uni or RUB), located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962, the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Classes opened in 1965.
Ruhr University is financed and administered by the State of North_Rhine-Westphalia, where it is the only university housing medicine, engineering, humanities, social sciences, theologies, and science at the same time. Currently, approximately 29,000 students (2004, down from 35,000 the year before due to introduction of fees) are enrolled, and the university employs some 6,500 staff, making it the ninth biggest university in Germany (as of 2003).