About the RPTU

 

We are the RPTU! With around 16,000students, 300 professorships and 160 degree programs, we are the technical university in Rhineland-Palatinate. As a place of top international research and an academic talent factory for business and science, we offer an excellent, cosmopolitan environment for study and research.

As a place of top international research and a talent factory for business, science and society, we offer an excellent, cosmopolitan environment for study and research in order to make important contributions to the pressing problems of the present and to a good future.

 

Goals and profile

The members of RPTU are just as committed to good scientific practice as they are to the high level of responsibility we bear towards society and the people at RPTU. Our mission statement forms the basis of our actions.

 

Values

16.120¹

Students

 

 

¹Data from the winter semester 2025/26
²Data from 2024

298¹

Professorships and
Junior professorships

98²

million euros in third-party funds

For around 16,000 students, 300 professorships and a total of 4,000 employees, we create clear structures and the shortest possible paths.

 

Organization

Working at the cutting edge of science? We offer a family-friendly, health-promoting environment and numerous career opportunities that are well worth joining at RPTU.

 

RPTU as an employer

The RPTU was created on January 1, 2023 as a merger of the TU Kaiserslautern and the University of Landau. As the heir to two locations with long roots in the Palatinate, it is the state's technical university.

 

History & present at RPTU

New research projects, the latest news from the university and important information about RPTU can be found in our newsroom.

 

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