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Organization

• 15 Departments

Numbers of students

• 40,800 students
• Percentage of women: just over 53 percent
• 8 percent students from abroad (3.236)

Employees

6,500 members of staff (excluding student assistants), including

• 551 professors
• 4,100 research assistants

In addition, the University Hospital has 7,000 members of staff.

Buildings

• 217 buildings spread over the whole city
• Covering 264,000 sqm of useable space

Budget

Budget in 2011: €559 million

Institutions

• 2 Excellence Cluster: "Religion and Politics" and "Cells in Motion"
• 8 Collaborative Research Centres (SFB)
• 2 Priority Programmes
• 3 Research Groups
• 6 Graduate Schools
• 4 International Research Training Groups
• 5 Junior Research Groups
• 2 Research Schools
• 1 International Max Planck Research School
• 1 Industrial Research School
• 19 Research Centres
• 14 Research Institutes affiliated to the University, including the Max Planck Institute of Vascular Biology and the Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research
• Cooperation with the Max Planck Institut for Molecular Biomedicine and with the Centre for NanoTechnology (CeNTech)

External funding

• 2011: € 128 million (income)
• Increasing continuously
• Humanities achieved 3rd place in the DFG funding ranking (2009)

Subjects

• More than 120 subjects in over 250 courses of study

Graduates

• Around 7,000 graduates each year (7,100 in 2011, second-highest number in Germany)

Qualifications (2011)

• Bachelor: 2,235
• Master: 996
• State examination: 1,605
• Diplom (equivalent to Master of Science): 985
• PhD/MD: 696
• Magister Artium: 384
• Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification): 35

Partnerships

• Over 550 partnership agreements with universities and educational establishments all over the world, from Enschede in the neighbouring Netherlands to Vientiane in Laos. 
• Focus areas in Latin America, South-East Asia and the Baltic States
• Member of the International Research Universities Network (IRUN) and the China-NRW Alliance
• Brazil Centre in Münster and in Brazil (est. 2010)
• Recieved the European Quality Seal by the national Agency for ERASMUS

Open to the world

• Around 700 academics are currently visiting the university to teach and do research in Münster
• 8 percent international students, in particular from Turkey, Eastern Europe, Southern and Eastern Asia (3,135)
• ~1,000 Münster students abroad every year
• The University of Münster has signed the National Code of Conduct on Foreign Students at German Higher Education Institutions.
• Was twice awarded the German Foreign Office Prize for excellent support of international students (1999 and 2007)