Technical University of Kaiserslautern

Technical University of Kaiserslautern is a public research university in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

There are numerous institutes around the university, including two Fraunhofer Institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, the Institute for Composite Materials and the Institute for Surface and Thin Film Analysis, all of which cooperate closely with the university.TU Kaiserslautern is organized into 12 faculties. Approximately 14,869 students are enrolled at the moment. The TU Kaiserslautern is part of the Software-Cluster along with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Saarland University. The Software-Cluster won the German government's Spitzencluster competition, the equivalence to the German Universities Excellence Initiative for clusters.