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Organization

• 15 Departments

Numbers of students

• 39,000 students
• Percentage of women: just over 53 percent
• 8 percent foreign students (3.135)

Employees

6,500 staff (excluding student assistants), including

• 551 professors
• 4,100 research assistants

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

Buildings

• 217 buildings spread over the city
• Covering 264,600 sqm 

Budget

Budget in 2011: €559 million

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
• 3 Graduate Schools
• 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
• 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

• 2011: € 128 million (income)
• Increasing continuously

Subjects

• More than 110 subjects in 250 courses of study

Graduates

• Around 7,000 graduates each year (7,300 in 2010)

Qualifications (2010)

• Bachelor: 2,174
• Master: 615
• State examination: 1,931
• Diploma: 1164
• PhD/MD: 791
• Magister Artium: 522
• Habilitation: 39

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 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 
• 8 percent foreign students, in particular from Turkey, Eastern Europe, Southern and Eastern Asia (3,135)
• 1,000 Münster students abroad