HCU Hamburg, founded in 2006, is a public university specializing in architecture, civil engineering, geomatics, and urban planning – The University of the Built Environment and Metropolitan Development”.”
Address: Henning-Voscherau-Platz 1, 20457 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Architecture & Urban Planning, Civil Engineering & Geomatics, Metropolitan Culture (with tech aspects)
Domains taught:
- AI and Machine Learning, Civil Engineering, Computer Vision, Data Analytics, Ecology and Sustainability, Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Geotechnics, Industrial Design, Logistics, Manufacturing, Materials, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Optics, Physics, Process Control, Project Management, Quality, Robotics, Signal Processing, Software Engineering, Statistics, Structural Engineering, Telecommunications, Thermodynamics, Transportations
Diplomas*:
- Bachelor, Doctor, Master
Status:
- Public
Partnerships:
Unique focus on the built environment and metropolitan development. Located in Hamburg’s HafenCity.
Research:
Sustainable urban design and construction, Geoinformatics and smart city technologies, Infrastructure planning and management, Digital methods in architecture and engineering.
Famous Alumnis:
N/A
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
150
Current students***:
2500
Foreign students***:
N/A%
Cumulative former students***:
N/A
Pros
Specialized expertise in built environment and urban development, innovative and interdisciplinary programs.
Cons
Highly specialized, small university.
Best For
University specializing in architecture, civil engineering, geomatics, and urban planning.
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Most Similar Schools Locally
- Think of Hochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences when logistics, transportations and geotechnics is the priority: it is larger, enrolling about 5,000 students against roughly 2,500 here, and is also a public institution.
- Among national alternatives, Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart stands out for its focus on logistics, transportations and geotechnics, and it does not run the doctoral programmes found here and covers astroscience and automation as well.
- Bauhaus-Universität Weimar sits close to this institution on transportations, geotechnics and optics; it is larger, enrolling about 4,000 students against roughly 2,500 here, and is also a public institution.
- The comparison with Universität der Bundeswehr München is straightforward on subjects, since both focus on logistics, transportations and geotechnics, and it covers military and aerospace as well, and is larger, enrolling about 4,000 students against roughly 2,500 here.
- The comparison with Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg is straightforward on subjects, since both focus on logistics, transportations and optics, and it teaches at the same levels, namely bachelor's, master's and doctoral, and covers military and aerospace as well.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- In Switzerland, FHNW Hochschule für Architektur, Bau und Geomatik teaches much the same core subjects, quality, geotechnics and optics, and it does not run the doctoral programmes found here and covers metrology as well.
- For a study option in France with a comparable spread of logistics, transportations and geotechnics, École des Ponts ParisTech is the reference point: it covers aerospace and automation as well, and is slightly smaller, at about 2,000 students against roughly 2,500 here.
- A foreign alternative with a similar emphasis on transportations, geotechnics and fluid dynamics is INSA Strasbourg in France, and it does not run the bachelor's programmes found here and covers automation and electrical and electronics as well.
- For transportations, geotechnics and optics outside the home country, University of Kitakyushu in Japan is a natural reference; it runs the same bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes, and covers food science and microbiology and genetics as well.
- In Japan, Nippon Institute of Technology teaches much the same core subjects, transportations, quality and geotechnics, and it is larger, enrolling about 5,000 students against roughly 2,500 here, and is private, whereas this university is public.
*our own picks (our criteria: a mix between domains, diploma delivered, reputation and size), but obviously too many criteria for an apple-to-apple ranking.
- Architecture, Civil Engineering, Digital Twin, Sustainable Development
*: without any judgment of the quality, readers are strongly encouraged to check the official status of the exact diploma envisioned as many universities have a mix of recognized diplomas, not recognized, “co-delivered,” “equivalent to”, “some pathways” (…), can change over time, and can be named differently from one country to another.
**: international reputation: is based on some criteria that do not mean much in some domains or specialties (number of researchers, of scientific publications, on budget ….). Our approximate 1-4 scale:
- known locally
- known locally and internationally
- is listed in some of the world university’s classifications
- is listed among the 20 firsts in some of world university’s classifications
***: estimated numbers, based on online sources and/or feedbacks. The numbers can vary greatly depending on school organisation (ex.: school is part of a group, it employs internal staff or external consultants or has public staff without employing them …). Refer to all the links provided to have accurate and updated numbers.
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