Talk:University of Cologne

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Largest or not?

The section "The University Today" contradicts the data in the summary.

By the numbers in the summary -- and by public statements -- Cologne is still the largest university. According to that section, however, it is not even the second largest. -- Ashmodai 08:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So dull!

This article is so dull and doesnt say anything about

student life
choice of professors
infrastucture provided
reputation of departments like economics (5 wise men) etc.

26 February 2006

Hm. If anybody has inside knowledge of that, would be nice to know. As for student life, there's really not much to say about that. The "Fachschaften" (student unions of the departments) seem to do a lot, but I haven't really payed them much attention as of yet.

Heck, we don't even have a web hosting service for students and the virtual private network requires either direct dial-in or some weird software by Cisco Systems.

Every department has its own library in addition to the university's library (which is publically accessible) and nobody likes the management, economics and justice departments' students, but that's really just the normal hate you have elsewhere too.

What else can I say? It's a horrible place to study applied computer sciences (Angewandte Informatik) because they only provide one subject for that unless you intend to study Medieninformatik (basically computer sciences for TV and film), but you didn't hear that from me.

The campus is rather nice, but unlike what seems to be the norm in the USA for example, the student apartments are all over the city rather than just in one or two big districts.

Lastly, the technology tends to be horribly outdated for the (second) largest university of Germany -- but at least most computers in the computing center have Linux installed in addition to Windows XP (some have Win NT 4 instead, tho).

The main purpose of the computer rooms seems to be to house the computer related courses anyway, so apparently they don't care much about other uses of them, except for a few of the computer pools, which tend to have even more outdated machines (in one of the philosophy department's pools the computers take at least a few minutes to boot to the desktop), though.

Anyway. Nice place to study nevertheless. So far I didn't have any bad encounters with the docents nor students. -- Ashmodai 04:14, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notable Alumni

I am sorry, but are those two obscure characters (Grunebaum and Teismann)all this community can come up with? I'll try to add some more prominent alumnis. Dpilat 09:14, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Academic profile doesn't exist?

So what's up with the empty "academic profile" section? Why was that deleted? Is someone writing a replacement? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spatio temporal (talk • contribs) 14:34, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison of German and English entries

Dear Community,

My name is Jan Voelkel and I work in the Press and Public Relations Department at the University of Cologne. I have noticed that the German Wiki entry on the University of Cologne is much more extensive than the English one. I therefore wanted to find out whether it is possible for me to align the two entries and change the English entry accordingly.

I would like to emphasize that I am not trying to change the content for PR purposes. I am aware that Wikipedia is not a platform for PR or the self-promotion of the university. I would just like to transfer the information that is already published in the German version of the article to the English entry.

Is this okay?

With best regards

Jan Voelkel JanVoelkelKoeln (talk) 13:11, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]