General information
Faculties
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15 faculties
Students (winter semester 2021/22)
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44,431 students
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56% female
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8% (3,482) international students
Employees (in 2020)
- 7,320 staff / headcount ( including Faculty of Medicine, central units and central scientific institutions)
including- 579 professors
- 25 associate professors (Juniorprofessoren)
- 4,871 academic staff
- 1,845 technical and administrative staff
Budget
- 731.6 million euros in 2020
Research
Institutions
- 2 Clusters of Excellence
- 15 Collaborative Research Centres (SFB)
- 5 research training groups (incl. international)
- 11 ERC-Grants
- 7 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
- 2020: 155.200.000 euros (incomings)
- the humanities achieved 8th place in the DFG funding ranking (2021)
Teaching
Subjects
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more than 120 subjects and over 280 degree programmes
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subjects ranging from A for Anglistik (English) to Z for Zahnmedizin (Dentistry)
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large selection of small disciplines
Graduates
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above 7,600 graduates in 20189
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ranked 5th in Germany for number of final examinations
Degrees (in 2019)
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Bachelor: 2,844
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Master: 2,631
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State examination: 1,027
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Doctorate/PhD: 770
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Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification): 36
International collaboration
Partnerships
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over 550 partnership agreements with universities and academic institutions all over the world, from Enschede in the Netherlands to Beijing, China
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member of the China-NRW Alliance
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Brazil Centre here in Münster and field office in São Paulo, Brazil
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focus on partnerships with Latin America, Southeast Asia and Europe
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international exchange programmes, awarded the European Quality Seal by the national Agency for ERASMUS
At home throughout the world
- 700 visiting researchers from around the world are currently lecturing and doing research at the University
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3482 students come from abroad, from 125 countries
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1,300 of our students are on exchange in another country
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signatory to the National Code of Conduct on Foreign Students at German Higher Education Institutions