enrolled. The faculty is the heart of the so-called Silicon Saxony in Dresden. The Faculty of Environmental Sciences has 2,914 students. The faculty is located on the main campus, except for the Forestry department which is located in Tharandt. The Forestry department is the oldest of its kind in Germany. Its history goes back to the foundation of the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry () in 1816. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering comprises 19 departments and has 5,731 students. It is the largest faculty at TUD. The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences "Friedrich List" is the only of its kind in Germany covering transport and traffic from economy and system theory science to electrical, civil and mechanical engineering. There are 1,536 students enrolled. Humanities and Social Sciences The Faculty of Business and Economics comprises five departments: Business Education Studies (), Business Management, Economics, Business Information Systems and Statistics. There are 2,842 students enrolled. The Faculty of Education, located east of the main campus, has 2,075 students. The Faculty of Languages, Literature and Culture is structured into five departments: American Studies, English Studies, German Studies, Philology, Romance Languages and Slavic Studies. There are 3,215 students at this faculty. The Faculty of Law is going to close in the next few years. Currently there are still 933 students enrolled. The TU Dresden has partially compensated for the closure by establishing a private law school. The Faculty of Philosophy comprises seven departments: Art History, Communications, History, Musicology, Political Sciences, Sociology and Theology. There are 3,485 students enrolled. The School of International Studies is a so-called central institution of the university coordinating the law, economics and political sciences departments for courses of interdisciplinary international relations. Medicine The Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine has its own campus east of the city center near the Elbe river. Currently, there are 2,195 students enrolled. The faculty has a partnership with Partners Harvard Medical International. Research Centers Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) – Cluster of Excellence – Cluster of Excellence Dendro-Institute Tharandt at the TU Dresden The European Institute for Postgraduate Education at TU Dresden () The European Institute of Transport () The Hannah Arendt Center for Research on Totalitarianism () Center for Media Culture () Center for Research on Mechanics of Structures and Materials () TUD Vietnam ERC, the TU Dresden Vietnam Education and Research Center. The center offers a Master's course in Mechatronics