Mainz University of Applied Sciences

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Practical and theoretically sound, international and future-oriented - studying at Mainz University of Applied Sciences prepare students for their careers and their future in the best sense of the word. We are known for the interdependence of teaching, research, and practice. The cooperation between the university and industry is incredibly close here: the on-the-job degree programs alone cultivate 450 cooperative partnerships, mainly in the Rhine-Main region's business sector.
It is a win-win situation: The business community benefits from innovative ideas from the university, and vice versa; the students benefit from the concrete objectives of the companies. This can be seen, among other things, in the introduction of international and future-oriented degree programs such as media design, international business, and media, IT & management. Despite demanding topics, studying here remains manageable in terms of time. The focus is always on the students: They benefit from the familiar atmosphere, small groups, and project-oriented learning.
In applied research and development, we do internationally recognized top-class work in many areas. Numerous third-party-funded projects and patent developments demonstrate this. With new focal points of our work, we continue to set innovative accents in research and development - which we then implement with cooperation partners from business, science, culture, and industry.
Seven institutes with their focal points of work have emerged from the schools at our university. To this day, the pioneers among them have been working independently and successfully for more than ten years.
To promote exchange with external partners from public institutions and the business sector, the university's central transfer office supports all partners involved in research and development projects.
The mission statement of Mainz University of Applied Sciences is a roadmap for continuous quality improvement as part of a university audit and is therefore subject to dynamic development.
It consists of twelve guiding principles on higher education policy's relevant core issues such as study, teaching, and research. The university administration decides in an annual cycle which of the listed objectives is to be developed further with desired results. This means that the objectives set out in the mission statement are subject to continuous review, have to prove themselves explicitly in the "acid test" of practical application, and have immutable university policy consequences (employment policy, for example). Thus, the university can carry out a permanent strength/weakness analysis, successively set new goals, create new structures for their implementation, and document the solutions.
We aim to provide our students with high-quality academic education through teaching and further education, research, and transfer. This includes the development and promotion of an independent, creative, and responsible identity for our students. We, i. e. all members of our university, align our activities with this goal.
Mainz University of Applied Sciences is a young university. It has been independent since 1996 and has been identified in its logo as a "University of Applied Sciences" since 1999. But the origins go back to 1757, the year in which the elector of Mainz decided to found an academy of painting and sculpture.
Much has changed since then: On 1 September 1996, the "Fachhochschule Rheinland-Pfalz," consisting of eight departments, was dissolved. A merger of the former departments Mainz I and Mainz II resulted in the Mainz University of Applied Sciences. Our German name was changed from "Fachhochschule Mainz" to "Hochschule Mainz" in September 2014, and around 5000 students are currently enrolled at the university.
In 2009, the university moved into an attractive new building on the campus near Johannes Gutenberg University.
In our globalized world, education and research at a university must be internationally oriented to prepare graduates adequately for the job market. Internationalization as an instrument to raise the profile of Mainz University of Applied Sciences and to maintain its competitiveness - regionally, nationally, and internationally - is one of the challenges of our time. Mainz University of Applied Sciences would like to develop further an international culture of study, teaching, and research supported by individual persons and practiced by all university members. This objective is already formulated as part of the university development plan and in the university's mission statement.
To establish girls and women in the still existing male domain of technical professions and increasingly in management positions, it is not sufficient to take selective individual measures. However, instead, it requires a comprehensive and long-term strategy.
A key role is played by universities, which have the task of providing education for society as a whole, and also act as the link between school careers and professional careers.
With the projects described in this chapter, Mainz University of Applied Sciences is trying to establish a framework and accompany and support female junior scientists from an early age to future management positions. All projects described here are based on the social consensus of achieving genuine equality between women and men.

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