Facts and figureS

General information

Faculties

  • 15 faculties

Students (winter semester 2022/23)

  • 44,585 students

  • 56% female

  • 8% (3,482) international students

Employees (in 2021)

  • 7,488 staff / headcount ( including Faculty of Medicine, central units and central scientific institutions)

    including
    • 592 professors
    • 26 associate professors (Juniorprofessoren)
    • 4,966 academic staff
    • 1,904 technical and administrative staff

 

Budget

  • 766.7 million euros in 2021

 

Research

Institutions

  • 2 Clusters of Excellence
  • 17 Collaborative Research Centres (SFB)
  • 5 research training groups (incl. international)
  • 12 ERC-Grants
  • 10 Emmy Noether independent junior research groups
  • 1 international Max Planck research school
  • 1 Max Planck institute
  • 1 Fraunhofer institute
  • 1 Helmholtz institute

(May 2022)

Third-party funding

  • 2021: 169.220.000 euros (incomings)
  • the humanities achieved 8th place in the DFG funding ranking (2021)

DFG-Förderprofil Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

 

 

Teaching

Subjects

  • more than 120 subjects and over 280 degree programmes

  • subjects ranging from A for Anglistik (English) to Z for Zahnmedizin (Dentistry)

  • large selection of small disciplines

Graduates

  • above 7,700 graduates in 2021

  • ranked 5th in Germany for number of final examinations

Degrees (in 2021)

  • Bachelor: 3,165

  • Master: 2,600

  • State examination: 1,026

  • Doctorate/PhD: 765

  • Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification): 37

 

International collaboration

Partnerships

  • over 550 partnership agreements with universities and academic institutions all over the world, from Enschede in the Netherlands to Beijing, China

  • member of the China-NRW Alliance

  • Brazil Centre here in Münster and field office in São Paulo, Brazil

  • focus on partnerships with Latin America, Southeast Asia and Europe

At home throughout the world

  • 700 visiting researchers from around the world are currently lecturing and doing research at the University

  • 3.621 students come from abroad, from 122 countries

  • 1,300 of our students are on exchange in another country

  • signatory to the National Code of Conduct on Foreign Students at German Higher Education Institutions