To create this Coversheet with Flexibility

Question

I try to create this cover sheet

I started to browse different variants of coversheets and think Warsaw's coversheet, here, is the closest. However, I do not the like the source code how it is accomplished.

My dummy-document but I started to think that I do not have the right tools now (not correct documentclass; there must be a better way to do this) where I created the align by minipages but the best way; probably same can be accomplished by fluhing

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{float}


\begin{document}
\title{THESIS FOR THE UNIVERSITY}
\author{} % no "immediate" warning wanted

% \begin{flushtop} % TODO do not know how to do this, since no command
\begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}\textbf{Lorem University} \\ \textbf{Department of Lorem} \end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}Course: Lorem Lipsum \\ Curriculm: Lorem \end{minipage}    
% \end{flushtop}

\date{} % no timestamp
\maketitle

% not sure what to use here 
%  \raggedbottom vs flushbottom?
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/65356/13173
\begin{flushbottom} % not working
\begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.45\linewidth}
Student: Lorem Ipsun \\ 
Year: 2015 \\ 
Day of birth: 1 \\ 
Nationality: USA
\end{minipage}
\end{flushbottom}

...
\end{document}

which gives two pages like

How can accomplish such a coversheet? I am also open to better i.e. more flexible ways to accomplish this. I may occur that I have to re-edit these coversheets fast to different formats so it would be nice to maintain flexibility.

Answer 1

As suggested in the comments, it's probably better to use titlepage. However, you can keep things all on one page by using this answer to \maketitle text before title and \vfill to push things to the top/bottom.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\title{THESIS FOR THE UNIVERSITY}
\author{} % no "immediate" warning wanted
\date{} % no timestamp

\begin{minipage}{0.4\linewidth}\textbf{Lorem University} \\ \textbf{Department of Lorem}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.4\linewidth}Course: Lorem Lipsum \\ Curriculm: Lorem \end{minipage}    
\par
\bigskip
{\let\newpage\relax\maketitle}
\thispagestyle{empty} % must come after \maketitle
\vfill\flushright
\begin{minipage}{0.33\linewidth}\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.33\linewidth}
Student: Lorem Ipsun \\ 
Year: 2015 \\ 
Day of birth: 1 \\ 
Nationality: USA
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

Note: I changed the widths of some of your minipages in order to spread them out a bit.