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Yeah, so a couple years back the "Technische Universität Berlin" rebranded to "Berlin Universität der Technologie" or Berlin University of Technology. Because t
by kuschkufan 4y ago
Yeah, so a couple years back the "Technische Universität Berlin" rebranded to "Berlin Universität der Technologie" or Berlin University of Technology. Because they thought that would be more similar to e.g. MIT and the like. Of course the abbreviation then would be BUT... Thankfully it did not stick and they are back to Technical University of Berlin.
- bonoboTP 4y agoIn 2006, the University of Karlsruhe rebranded (for the same reason) to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), aping MIT.
- 2143 4y ago> Because they thought that would be more similar to e.g. MIT Why would a superficial similarly to "MIT" be any be useful? Any potential student should be able to look past that.
- crtasm 4y agoI guess it got reverted pretty quick, the only search result for "Berlin Universität der Technologie" is your post here.
- kuschkufan 4y agoSee https://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/newsportal/internationales/2008/name_fuer_das_ausland_festgelegt/ https://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/newsportal/internation... Guess it was for English only
- crtasm 4y agoah, and that explains why I didn't find it looking for the English either. It was "Berlin Institute of Technology"