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Organization

• 15 Departments in
• 7 Faculties

Numbers of students

• 37,200 students
• Percentage of women: just over 53 percent
• 9 percent foreign students (3.047)
  

Employees

5,000 staff (excluding student assistants), including

• 526 professors
• 3,828 research assistants

In addition, there are 7,000 staff employed at the University Hospital.

Buildings

• 212 buildings spread over the city
• Covering 257,000 sqm 

Budget

Institutions

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

External funding

• 2009: € 122 million (income)
  
• Increasing continuously

Subjects

• More than 110 subjects in 250 courses of study
  

Graduates

• Around 7,000 graduates each year

Qualifications

• Bachelor: 1,624
• Master: 192
  
• State examination: 2,710
• Diploma: 960
• PhD/MD: 693
  
• Magister Artium: 607
• Habilitation: 44
  

Partnerships

• Over 400 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 region
• Member of the International Research Universities Network (IRUN) and the China-NRW Alliance

Open to the world

• Around 700 academics are currently visiting the university to teach and do research here 
• 9 percent foreign students, in particular from Turkey, Eastern Europe, Southern and Eastern Asia (3,000)
• 1,900 Münster students abroad