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Cosmopolitan, personal, familial – the University of Vechta is a youthful, modern campus university with excellent studying and a delineated profile. For the 5000 students and 400-odd staff, the campus offers a familial atmosphere conveniently coupled with a modern university infrastructure. The Bologna Process has been fully implemented. The emphasis on quality – attractive, forward-looking courses, personal support, and global exchange programs are the hallmarks of a high-quality degree program.
The University of Vechta has presented a clear profile to the business, social, and cultural world. The Vechta region offers the perfect laboratory for addressing a range of issues impacting the future viability of our global society – an economic boom region in the heart of the countryside, a provincial global player, a unique cultural and social identity, natural spaces, and intensive agriculture contrasting factors which resolve into the excellent quality of life. The University of Vechta's development plan defines rural space as a framework for profiling the areas of education, aging, social services, cultural change, and regional development. The choice of focus represents a conscious response to the University's location, which delineates it from urban spaces and creates additional research prospects, including at the international level.
Across the various life stages, issues about society's future – education, aging, and social and cultural change – are critical areas of academic discourse. The profile is rounded off by gender studies and business ethics, generating further cross-faculty learning and research opportunities. By adopting this strategic orientation, the University of Vechta has deliberately chosen to strike out in new directions. The research and teaching spheres provide space for an intensive exploration of the political, social, and individual challenges confronting people and society in the 21st century.
The district and university town of Vechta, with a population of around 32,000, lies in the heart of the Oldenburg Münsterland area on the A1 motorway within the city triangle formed by Osnabrück, Oldenburg, and Bremen. Vechta is well known beyond the region as a horse-loving community and for its annual Stoppelmarkt Fair. The landscape of Oldenburg Münsterland makes it ideal for cycling, which explains Vechta's reputation as a cyclist's heaven. Vechta is one of Northwest Germany's economic powerhouses. As a rural area with several world market leaders in agriculture and as a center of European plastics technology, it is very active in the international arena. A low unemployment rate and a high birth rate make Vechta a family-friendly, busy town where people enjoy living and working.
The University of Vechta has several sites within the town. The campus containing lecture halls, administrative buildings, the library, and the canteen are located at the Driverstraße/Universitätsstraße crossing in the town's south-east. There are also several smaller sites, including the Katasteramt, Burgstraße, Kreuzweg, and Gut Füchtel.
The University of Vechta offers a clear, forward-looking vision. It sees itself as offering a balanced mix of regional integration and international orientation. It was one of the first universities in Germany to actively face up to the Bologna Process's challenges. Its bachelor's degree courses are consistently designed to be interdisciplinary and vocationally oriented, permitting direct entry into the relevant profession or pursuing a further qualification through a master's degree course. The University of Vechta has consciously chosen to focus on critical issues for the future of society – education, aging, social and cultural change, and the rural setting generate exciting research and teaching opportunities. Founded by the Duchy of Oldenburg in 1830 as a Catholic teacher training college for prospective state school teachers, today it is a modern university offering outstanding teaching, innovative research, and an international outlook.
The original institution was directed solely towards teacher training. Following expansion into a Catholic seminary for schoolteachers, in 1940, it became the Duchy of Oldenburg Vechta Teacher Training College (Oldenburgische Lehrerbildungsanstalt Vechta). After the war, the college was taken over by the State of Lower Saxony as a specialist education college and, in 1969, along with seven other higher education institutes, became part of the Lower Saxony College of Education (Pädagogische Hochschule Niedersachsen). In 1973, the departments located in Vechta were transferred to the University of Osnabrück. With the expansion of its teacher training courses and new degree programs, the focus switched to obtaining independent status. 1995 saw the creation of the first independent higher education institution in Vechta (Hochschule Vechta). It was formally designated as a university on June 8, 2010. A further milestone was reached with the new 'Q' building, combining lecture theatres and seminar rooms. Combining a pioneering wayfinding system has created a modern learning environment that offers excellent orientation throughout the campus. Innovative and future-oriented, the University of Vechta retains its traditional values and offers ideal teaching and research conditions within an intimate, personal atmosphere.


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