Saarland University is a modern research university located in
Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of
Saarland, and
Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with
France and is organized in eight
faculties that cover all major fields of science. The university is particularly well known for research and education in
computer science,
computational linguistics and
materials science, consistently ranking among the top in the country in those fields. In 2007, the university was recognized as an excellence center for computer science in Germany.