Formed in 1990 following the merger of several schools of education in Rhineland-Palatinate, the university was unique in Germany in that it had two campi that were on opposite ends of the state and essentially functioned as two separate universities, complete with their own staff, administration and student culture, with little to no interaction with its counterpart.
To not privilege one campus, the president's office and central administration were located in the state capital Mainz.
In 1969, six of these institutions in Rhineland-Palatinate, located in Koblenz, Landau, Mainz, Neuwied, Kaiserslautern, and Worms, were merged to form the Erziehungswissenschaftliche Hochschule Rheinland-Pfalz (EWH).
[4] To not privilege one campus, the president's office and central administration were located in the state capital of Mainz.
[3] After years of criticism of the convoluted, inefficient and expensive structure with three separate locations, the state decided to again restructure the university in 2019.