Webdesign on a grand scale

Large, diverse, internationally recognised: With 260 institutes in nine faculties, RWTH Aachen University is one of Europe's leading science and research institutions.
Around 560 professors teach at Germany's second-largest university for technical degree programmes in terms of student numbers. RWTH Aachen University has been involved in excellence clusters for years and is currently submitting two new cluster applications.
As part of the evaluation of the Universities of Excellence 2025 funding line, RWTH would like to present itself with a renewed website - which was created by our experts for conception and design.

Whether research into artificial intelligence, innovative developments for mining or a conference on dealing with Germany's colonial past: RWTH Aachen University is broadly positioned and internationally recognised for its research projects.

It has been one of Germany's Universities of Excellence since 2019. When the Universities of Excellence funding line is evaluated in summer 2025, RWTH would like to present itself with a renewed online presence: with a visually and conceptually revised website that takes current needs, topics and content into account.

A concept for almost 50,000 participants

Around 45,000 students in a good 170 degree programmes, 560 teaching staff and almost 3,000 employees - creating a website that meets the requirements of a small town and at the same time radiates outwards is no everyday challenge. The conceptual preparatory work was correspondingly extensive: In a total of four well-attended workshops, we jointly approached the university's goals from an internal and external perspective and created personas, whose needs we then summarised in clusters. In addition to the extensive stakeholder perspectives, the results of a survey of more than 1,000 (!) students also contributed to the findings.
Online mirror of university diversity

The size and diversity of the RWTH is also reflected in the resulting concept: there is no one right way - rather, the university's attitude results from different perspectives that are reflected on the website. We also took into account the requirement for an institute construction kit, which can be used to create the pages of the nine faculties and the websites for almost 1,000 institutions, organised in 260 institutes.

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Webdesign on a grand scale

A concept for almost 50,000 participants

Online mirror of university diversity