Münster University stands for excellent research, high-quality teaching and a commitment to supporting junior academics. As a university which is rooted in its local region and, at the same time, cosmopolitan in its outlook, Münster promotes international exchanges. In many fields of research it undertakes top-flight research which has an international reputation – for example, in the joint research carried out in the humanities and in cultural studies, as well as in the fields of evolutionary research, chemistry and physics, and mathematics.