Academic excellence with a global perspective
Inspiration is a place. A place to obtain the qualification to work on responsible tasks in a digitalized and globalized society. A private, English-speaking campus university in Germany with highest standards in research and teaching following an interdisciplinary concept. With the aim to strengthen people and markets with innovative solutions and advanced training programs.
Join our vibrant international community at Jacobs University. Meet students from more than 100 nations. Be inspired.
Opening in 2001
Jacobs University was founded with the support of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the University of Bremen, and Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Organization. Private, state-recognized university, gGmbH (limited liability company whose profits are utilized for non-commercial purposes)
Supervisory Board and decision-making body: Board of Governors
Campus: 34 hectares; located 17 km from the city center
Language of teaching and research: English
The rasdaman team early on has invented services for actionable datacubes. In fact, rasdaman has pioneered Array Databases, being the first fully implemented, operationally used system with an array query language and optimized processing engine. Today, rasdaman is a lively, mature, and professionally managed open-source project led by Jacobs University, with substantial contribution also by the rasdaman GmbH spinoff.