University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)

The RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau (German: Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, abbreviated RPTU) is a public technical university with campuses in Kaiserslautern and Landau in der Pfalz, Germany.RPTU 凯泽斯劳滕-兰道大学（德文：Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau，简称 RPTU）是位于德国凯泽斯劳滕与兰道普法尔茨的公立工业大学，实行双校区办学。

It was created on 1 January 2023 by merging the Technical University of Kaiserslautern with the Landau campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau, making it the only technical university in Rhineland-Palatinate.该校于 2023 年 1 月 1 日由凯泽斯劳滕工业大学与科布伦茨-兰道大学的兰道校区合并而成，是莱茵兰-普法尔茨州唯一的工业大学。

The dual-campus university is organised into 16 faculties, offers more than 160 courses of study and enrols around 17,000 students, with research strengths in engineering, computer science, natural and environmental sciences, psychology and teacher education.这所双校区大学设有 16 个学院，提供 160 多门课程，在校生约一万七千人，研究优势集中在工程、计算机科学、自然与环境科学、心理学和教师教育。

History

• The Landau line of descent begins with the Royal Prussian Teachers' Seminary founded in Koblenz in 1903, which was closed in 1925 when pedagogical academies took over teacher training.兰道一脉可追溯至 1903 年在科布伦茨创办的皇家普鲁士教师讲习所，该机构于 1925 年因教育学院的兴起而关闭。
• After the Second World War, pedagogical academies were established across Rhineland-Palatinate by 1949, and in 1960 they were upgraded into six pedagogical colleges, including one in Landau.二战后，莱茵兰-普法尔茨各地在 1949 年前陆续设立教育学院，1960 年这些学院升格为六所师范学院，兰道师范学院是其中之一。
• On 1 October 1969 the Landau college became part of the Erziehungswissenschaftliche Hochschule Rheinland-Pfalz, a state teacher-training university that gained doctoral and habilitation rights in 1970.1969 年 10 月 1 日，兰道师范学院并入莱茵兰-普法尔茨教育科学高等学校，这所州立教师教育大学于 1970 年获得博士与教授资格授予权。
• In the same year the University of Trier-Kaiserslautern was founded as a twin institution, and teaching in Kaiserslautern began in 1970 with 191 students in rooms of the former pedagogical college.同年，特里尔-凯泽斯劳滕双联大学成立，凯泽斯劳滕校区于 1970 年在原师范学院校舍开课，首批学生 191 人。
• Construction of the Kaiserslautern campus above the city, at the edge of the Palatinate Forest, started in 1971 and has continued in stages to the present.凯泽斯劳滕校园位于城市上方、普法尔茨森林边缘，1971 年动工，此后分阶段持续扩建至今。
• Because both halves grew rapidly, the twin university was split in 1975, leaving Kaiserslautern as an independent university and the only engineering-oriented university in the state, while Trier kept its own university.由于两个校区都迅速扩张，双联大学于 1975 年拆分，凯泽斯劳滕成为独立大学，也是该州唯一以工程为导向的大学。
• The experimental physicist Helmut Ehrhardt served as the first president from 1972 to 1981 and shaped the new university's research profile.实验物理学家赫尔穆特·埃尔哈特自 1972 至 1981 年担任首任校长，塑造了这所新大学的研究方向。
• On 1 October 1990 the Erziehungswissenschaftliche Hochschule was converted into the University of Koblenz-Landau, with psychology established as a faculty in Landau.1990 年 10 月 1 日，教育科学高等学校改制为科布伦茨-兰道大学，心理学在兰道设院。
• In 1992 the university founded the Centre for Distance Studies and University Continuing Education, which became the Distance and Independent Studies Center and enrolled about 4,200 distance students in 2022.1992 年学校创办远程学习与大学继续教育中心，该机构后更名为远程与独立学习中心，2022 年约有四千二百名远程学生。
• Also in 1992 the Institute for Special Education returned from Mainz to Landau, restoring a discipline that had been moved away in 1985.同样在 1992 年，特殊教育研究所从美因茨迁回兰道，恢复了 1985 年迁出的学科。
• A change to the Rhineland-Palatinate higher education framework law on 1 September 2003 recognised the university's technical profile by renaming it Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, aligning its title with its engineering and natural science strengths.2003 年 9 月 1 日，莱茵兰-普法尔茨高等教育框架法修订，认可该校的技术定位，将其更名为凯泽斯劳滕工业大学。
• New buildings opened on the Landau campus in 2004, and in 2010 the city added a new ascent linking the town centre to the campus.兰道校区于 2004 年启用新建筑，2010 年又建成一条连接市中心与校园的新通道。
• A civic foundation for the university was established in 2006, initially to support the Kaiserslautern institution and later extended to the merged RPTU, with its seat at Villa Denis in Diemerstein.2006 年成立大学公民基金会，最初支持凯泽斯劳滕工业大学，合并后转为支持 RPTU，基金会驻地设在迪默施泰因的德尼别墅。
• In October 2009 four pilot departments won the national Teaching Excellence competition against 107 other institutions, bringing a prize of one million euros.2009 年 10 月，四个试点院系在全国教学卓越竞赛中从 107 所高校中胜出，获得一百万欧元奖金。
• A 2018 expert report on Rhineland-Palatinate's higher education future recommended closer cooperation between Landau and Kaiserslautern, and in 2019 the state decided to divide the University of Koblenz-Landau.2018 年关于莱茵兰-普法尔茨高等教育未来的专家报告建议兰道与凯泽斯劳滕加强合作，2019 年州政府决定拆分科布伦茨-兰道大学。
• A state law restructuring the Kaiserslautern, Landau and Koblenz university sites took effect in autumn 2020, and in June 2022 the senates of both sites unanimously approved RPTU's first constitution.重组凯泽斯劳滕、兰道与科布伦茨校区的州法于 2020 年秋生效，2022 年 6 月两地评议会一致通过 RPTU 的首部章程。
• The merger took effect on 1 January 2023, while Koblenz continued as an independent University of Koblenz, and RPTU was initially led by a dual presidency, its new name combining the state's German name with the technical university designation.合并于 2023 年 1 月 1 日生效，科布伦茨则作为独立的科布伦茨大学继续办学，RPTU 最初由双校长领导。
• The dual leadership consisted of Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, former president of TU Kaiserslautern, and Gabriele Schaumann, former vice-president in Landau.双校长为原凯泽斯劳滕工业大学校长阿恩德·珀奇-赫夫特与原兰道校区副校长加布里埃莱·绍曼。
• On 13 December 2023 the senate unanimously elected Malte Drescher, a chemist and prorector at the University of Konstanz, as president, and he took office on 1 October 2024.2023 年 12 月 13 日，评议会一致选举康斯坦茨大学化学教授、副校长马尔特·德雷舍尔为校长，他于 2024 年 10 月 1 日就任。
• The university library was founded with the twin university in 1970, and construction of the Kaiserslautern central library began in 1983 and was completed in 1986.大学图书馆随 1970 年双联大学成立而创办，凯泽斯劳滕中央图书馆于 1983 年动工，1986 年落成启用。

• By winter semester 2018/19 the Kaiserslautern university had 14,869 students, while its distance-learning centre counted about 3,200 in summer 2014, showing the scale from which RPTU was formed.2018/19 年冬季学期凯泽斯劳滕大学有 14,869 名学生，其远程学习中心在 2014 年夏季约有三千二百人，显示 RPTU 合并前的规模。

Academics

• The 16 faculties are split between the two campuses, with architecture, civil engineering, biology, chemistry, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, mechanical and process engineering, mathematics, physics, spatial and environmental planning, social sciences and business studies in Kaiserslautern, a division that follows the engineering and natural-science focus of the Kaiserslautern site and the teacher-training, psychology and environmental focus of Landau.16 个学院分设两地，凯泽斯劳滕设有建筑、土木工程、生物、化学、电子与信息工程、计算机科学、机械与过程工程、数学、物理、空间与环境规划、社会科学以及经济学。
• Landau hosts the faculties of education sciences, cultural and social sciences, natural and environmental sciences, and psychology, preserving the teacher-training and environmental profile of the former Koblenz-Landau campus.兰道设有教育科学、文化与社会学、自然与环境科学以及心理学四个学院，延续了原科布伦茨-兰道校区的教师教育与环境科学特色。
• The university lists 147 degree programmes in 2025, comprising 52 bachelor's, 64 master's, 20 distance-learning programmes, four certificates and seven teaching degrees, while its English website rounds the offer to more than 160 courses.2025 年学校列出 147 个学位项目，包括 52 个学士、64 个硕士、20 个远程项目、4 个证书项目和 7 个教师教育项目，英文官网则概称为 160 多门课程。
• The Distance and Independent Studies Center, founded in 1992, offers part-time master's and certificate programmes and had produced more than 15,000 graduates by the 2020s.1992 年成立的远程与独立学习中心提供在职硕士与证书项目，到 2020 年代已培养逾一万五千名毕业生。
• As one of Rhineland-Palatinate's four teacher-training universities, RPTU combines two school subjects with educational sciences and requires four practical placements across the bachelor's and master's phases.作为莱茵兰-普法尔茨四所教师教育大学之一，RPTU 把两门学科与教育科学结合，并在本科与硕士阶段要求完成四次教学实习。
• First-degree students pay no tuition in Rhineland-Palatinate, while a second degree costs 700 euros per semester and the social contribution was 316.40 euros per semester in summer 2025 at both campuses.莱茵兰-普法尔茨州的首个学位不收学费，第二学位每学期收费 700 欧元，2025 年夏季学期两个校区的学期杂费均为 316.40 欧元。
• The Kaiserslautern campus is surrounded by eight central research institutions, including the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering.凯泽斯劳滕校园周边聚集八个中央研究机构，包括弗劳恩霍夫工业数学研究所和弗劳恩霍夫实验软件工程研究所。
• Other partner institutes include the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, the Leibniz Institute for Composite Materials and the Institute for Surface and Thin Film Analysis.其他伙伴机构包括马克斯·普朗克软件系统研究所、德国人工智能研究中心、莱布尼茨复合材料研究所以及表面与薄膜分析研究所。
• RPTU belongs to the Software Cluster with TU Darmstadt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Saarland University, a network that won Germany's Spitzencluster competition.RPTU 与达姆施塔特工业大学、卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院和萨尔大学同属软件集群，该网络曾赢得德国“尖端集群”竞赛。
• The university is the second-largest academic institution in Rhineland-Palatinate and the only technical university in the state, with around 17,000 students spread across its two campuses.该校是莱茵兰-普法尔茨第二大学术机构，也是该州唯一的工业大学。
• Its 2025 programme list includes English-taught master's courses and joint Erasmus Mundus degrees in quantum technologies, software engineering and embedded computing systems.其 2025 年项目清单包含英语授课硕士，以及量子技术、软件工程和嵌入式计算系统领域的伊拉斯谟世界联合学位。
• Through the University of the Greater Region, students can take courses in Lorraine, Luxembourg, Liège, Saarland and Trier and transfer up to 10 ECTS per semester.借助大区域大学联盟，学生可在洛林、卢森堡、列日、萨尔与特里尔的高校修课，每学期最多可转换 10 个 ECTS 学分。
• RPTU is a member of the German-French University network and offers up to five German-French programmes leading to double degrees.RPTU 是德法大学网络的成员，提供最多五个可获双学位的德法联合项目。
• Erasmus exchanges link the university with about 140 partner institutions in 25 countries, in addition to bilateral agreements beyond Europe.伊拉斯谟交换项目连接该校与 25 个国家的约 140 所伙伴院校，此外还有欧洲以外的双边协议。
• Library provision comprises a central library and eight subject libraries in Kaiserslautern plus one library in Landau, with subject portals for engineering, natural sciences and social sciences.图书馆体系包括凯泽斯劳滕的中央馆与八个专业分馆，以及兰道的一座图书馆，并按工程、自然科学和社会科学设置学科门户。
• In the 2018 WirtschaftsWoche university ranking, mechanical engineering placed sixth, electrical engineering fifth, computer science eighth and industrial engineering seventh among German universities.在 2018 年《经济周刊》高校排名中，该校机械工程位列德国第 6、电气工程第 5、计算机科学第 8、工业工程第 7。

• RPTU awards Bachelor of Arts, Education and Science degrees, Master of Arts, Education, Science, Engineering and Laws degrees, and doctorates across its faculties.RPTU 授予文学、教育学与理学学士，文学、教育学、理学、工程学与法学硕士，以及各学院博士学位。

• The mathematics faculty works closely with the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics, and computer science with the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.数学学院与弗劳恩霍夫工业数学研究所密切合作，计算机科学则与弗劳恩霍夫实验软件工程研究所和马克斯·普朗克软件系统研究所协作。

Campus

• The Kaiserslautern campus lies on a hill above the city at the edge of the Palatinate Forest, a green site built from 1971 onwards and expanded building by building, a short bus ride from the main railway station and the medieval centre.凯泽斯劳滕校区位于城市上方的山丘上、普法尔茨森林边缘，自 1971 年起逐步建设，建筑分期扩展。
• A sculpture park on the Kaiserslautern campus includes the Gate of Science, whose form inspired the former TU Kaiserslautern logo.凯泽斯劳滕校园的雕塑公园内有“科学之门”，其造型启发了原凯泽斯劳滕工业大学的校徽。
• The Landau campus occupies the northwest of the town of Landau in der Pfalz within the former fortifications, a layout that mixes academic buildings with converted military and civic structures.兰道校区位于城西北的旧防御工事区域内，教学建筑与改造后的军事及市政建筑交错分布。
• Landau's 14 associated outposts include the Frank-Loebsche Haus, home of the Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy, a former French school, the Reduit and the Rote Kaserne.兰道校区的 14 个外围场所包括莱茵兰-普法尔茨和平学院所在的弗兰克-勒布之家、一所原法国学校、雷杜伊特要塞与红色兵营。
• Eight extracurricular learning sites around Landau extend teaching into schools, museums and environmental facilities.兰道周边还有八个课外学习点，把教学延伸到学校、博物馆与环境设施。
• The Kaiserslautern sports hall supports badminton, gymnastics and table tennis, while running, hockey, basketball and football take place on the adjoining grounds.凯泽斯劳滕体育馆可进行羽毛球、体操和乒乓球，跑步、曲棍球、篮球与足球则在相邻场地开展。
• Landau has its own sports facilities, the university sports centre organises courses at both sites, and the student pub FATAL has operated there since 1985.兰道拥有独立体育设施，学生酒馆 FATAL 自 1985 年起营业。
• The two campuses lie roughly 70 kilometres apart in the Palatinate, connected by regional rail and by the university's dual administrative structure.两个校区相距约七十公里，同处普法尔茨地区，由区域铁路和学校的双校区行政体系连接。
• The central library in Kaiserslautern, completed in 1986, anchors a library system that also serves the Landau site and its outposts.1986 年落成的凯泽斯劳滕中央图书馆构成图书馆体系的核心，同时服务兰道校区及其外围场所。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 RPTU is listed in the 1401+ band, reflecting its status as a young merged institution still building an international profile.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，RPTU 被列入 1401+ 区间，反映其作为新合并院校仍在建设国际声誉。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 601-650 band, its strongest result among the major global tables and a marked improvement on the 601-800 placing recorded in the 2024 edition.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 601-650 区间，这是该校在主要全球榜单中的最好成绩。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places RPTU in the 701-800 band, and the university does not appear in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将 RPTU 列入 701-800 区间，该校未进入 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单。
• In the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2024, RPTU was placed in the 101-150 band, a relevant measure for an institution founded in 2023 and for predecessors that were themselves relatively young universities.在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育年轻大学排名中，RPTU 位于 101-150 区间，这对一所 2023 年成立的大学尤为相关。
• The 2018 WirtschaftsWoche ranking placed mechanical engineering sixth, electrical engineering fifth, computer science eighth and industrial engineering seventh in Germany, evidence of its engineering strength.2018 年《经济周刊》排名把该校机械工程列为德国第 6、电气工程第 5、计算机科学第 8、工业工程第 7，显示其工程实力。
• Its mathematics department belonged to the top group in all categories of the CHE's 2012 "Diverse Excellence" assessment.该校数学系在 2012 年 CHE“多元卓越”评估的所有类别中均进入顶尖组。
• The 2009 Teaching Excellence prize of one million euros and the Software Cluster's Spitzencluster win are the university's two most cited national distinctions.2009 年获得的一百万欧元教学卓越奖以及软件集群赢得的“尖端集群”称号，是该校最常被提及的两项全国性荣誉。
• In the Humboldt Ranking, which counts research stays by Humboldt Foundation fellows and award winners rather than student satisfaction, RPTU placed 42nd among German institutions.在统计洪堡基金会奖学金生与获奖者研究停留的洪堡排名中，RPTU 在德国机构中位列第 42。
• The 2019 state decision to concentrate engineering in Kaiserslautern and environmental and social sciences in Landau gave the merged university a deliberately complementary disciplinary profile.2019 年州政府决定把工程学科集中在凯泽斯劳滕、环境与社会学科集中在兰道，使合并后的大学形成互补的学科布局。

Student life

• RPTU has no formal motto, and its student identity is organised around the two campuses, their AStA bodies and more than 80 registered student groups.RPTU 没有正式校训，其学生身份认同围绕两个校区、各自的学生委员会以及八十多个注册学生团体展开。
• University sport offers more than 90 disciplines across Kaiserslautern and Landau, from ball games and running to gymnastics and outdoor sports.两校区的大学体育提供九十多个项目，从球类、跑步到体操与户外运动。
• The Landau student pub FATAL, operating since 1985, is one of the oldest continuous student-run venues in the region.兰道学生酒馆 FATAL 自 1985 年营业，是该地区历史最悠久的学生自营场所之一。
• Kaiserslautern hosted the LinuxTag from 1996 to 1999 before the event moved to Stuttgart, a trace of the campus's open-source culture.凯泽斯劳滕在 1996 至 1999 年举办 LinuxTag，此后活动迁往斯图加特，这留下校园开源文化的印记。
• Klaus Knopper, creator of the Knoppix Linux distribution, kept an office in the basement of the university computing centre.Knoppix Linux 发行版的创建者克劳斯·克诺珀曾在大学计算中心地下室拥有一间办公室。
• The 52nd Conference of Computer Science Student Representatives met at RPTU Kaiserslautern in 2024 and adopted its first standing rules there.第 52 届计算机科学学生代表会议于 2024 年在 RPTU 凯泽斯劳滕校区举行，并在会上通过了首部议事规则。
• Landau sits in the Palatinate wine district, and the campus's position within the old fortifications places student housing, cafés and the town centre within walking distance.兰道位于普法尔茨葡萄酒产区，校园处在旧防御工事内，学生宿舍、咖啡馆与市中心均可步行到达。
• The Kaiserslautern campus, on the forest edge above town, is connected by bus and regional rail, with the city centre several minutes downhill.凯泽斯劳滕校区位于城上森林边缘，由公交与区域铁路连接，下山数分钟即可到达市中心。

• Registered groups range from Ingenieure ohne Grenzen and the JungChemikerForum to AEGEE, Bonding and the Karat Racing Team, which builds a Formula Student car.注册团体从“无国界工程师”、青年化学家论坛到 AEGEE、Bonding 以及制造大学生方程式赛车的 Karat Racing Team。

Notable people

• Helmut Ehrhardt, an experimental physicist, was the first president of the University of Kaiserslautern and led it from 1972 to 1981.实验物理学家赫尔穆特·埃尔哈特是凯泽斯劳滕大学首任校长，1972 至 1981 年在任。
• Dieter Maaß led the university from 1981 to 1987, and Klaus Landfried followed him from 1987 to 1997.迪特·马斯于 1981 至 1987 年领导该校，克劳斯·兰德弗里德随后于 1987 至 1997 年接任。
• Klaus Landfried later served as president of the German Rectors' Conference from 1998 to 2006, giving the Kaiserslautern campus a voice in national higher education policy.克劳斯·兰德弗里德后来担任德国大学校长联席会议主席，使凯泽斯劳滕校区在全国高教政策中拥有话语权。
• Günter Warnecke was president from 1998 to 2002, and Helmut J. Schmidt held the office from 2002 to 2020, the longest tenure in the university's history.金特·瓦内克于 1998 至 2002 年任校长，赫尔穆特·J·施密特于 2002 至 2020 年任职，是该校历史上任期最长的校长。
• Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, a computer scientist, was president of TU Kaiserslautern from 2020 and then co-president of RPTU during its first year.计算机科学家阿恩德·珀奇-赫夫特自 2020 年任凯泽斯劳滕工业大学校长，并在 RPTU 成立首年担任双校长之一。
• Gabriele Schaumann, an environmental chemist and former vice-president in Landau, served as the Landau half of RPTU's dual presidency in 2023 and 2024.环境化学家、原兰道校区副校长加布里埃莱·绍曼在 2023 至 2024 年担任 RPTU 双校长中的兰道一方。
• Malte Drescher, a physical chemist who came from the University of Konstanz, has been RPTU president since 1 October 2024 and represents the first single head of the merged university.物理化学家马尔特·德雷舍尔来自康斯坦茨大学，自 2024 年 10 月 1 日起担任 RPTU 校长。
• Klaus Knopper created the Knoppix live Linux distribution while working at the university's computing centre, and the system became one of the most widely used tools for system recovery and Linux teaching after its release at the turn of the millennium.克劳斯·克诺珀在大学计算中心工作期间创建了 Knoppix 自启动 Linux 发行版。
• Stefan Wehner, a physicist, served as vice-president for the Koblenz campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau before the 2023 split.物理学家斯特凡·韦纳在 2023 年拆分前担任科布伦茨-兰道大学科布伦茨校区副校长。
• Michael Ludewig was chancellor of the University of Koblenz-Landau and oversaw its administrative division during the merger.米夏埃尔·卢德维希曾任科布伦茨-兰道大学校务长，在合并期间负责行政拆分。
• Hans-Georg Hahn, a professor of technical mechanics, and his wife Liselotte endowed a foundation that still supports mechanical engineering students at the university.技术力学教授汉斯-格奥尔格·哈恩与妻子莉泽洛特设立基金会，至今仍资助该校机械工程学生。