With roughly 40,000 students, about 580 professors and more than 14,000 employees, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), founded in 1743, is one of the largest universities in Germany. In addition to the Cluster of Excellence 'Engineering of Advanced Materials' (EAM) and the ‘Graduate School of Advanced Optical Technologies’ (SAOT), which was founded as part of the Excellence Initiative, FAU currently has more than 40 co-ordinated programmes funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

弗里德里希-亚历山大埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学(FAU)成立于 1743 年，拥有约 4 万名学生、约 580 名教授和 14,000 多名员工，是德国最大的大学之一。除了作为卓越倡议一部分成立的“先进材料工程”卓越集群(EAM)和“先进光学技术研究生院”(SAOT)外，FAU 目前拥有 40 多个由德国研究基金会(DFG)资助的协调项目。

FAU offers around 260 degree programmes, including eight Bavarian Elite Master's degree programmes and around 50 programmes with a distinct international focus. No other German university offers such a broad and interdisciplinary range of subjects on all qualification levels. FAU students enjoy global mobility through over 500 partnerships with higher education institutions in more than 70 countries.

FAU 提供约 260 个学位项目，包括八个巴伐利亚精英硕士项目和约 50 个具有明显国际视角的项目。没有其他德国大学能在所有资格层级上提供如此广泛且跨学科的学科。FAU 学生通过与 70 多个国家的 500 多个高等教育机构合作，享有全球流动性。