Living Knowledge.
Profile of the WWU Münster
Organization
- 15 departments in
- 7 faculties
Numbers of students
- 37 000 Students
- Percentage of women: just over 53 percent
Employees
5,000 staff (excluding student assistants), including
- 565 professors
- 2,700 research assistants
- 1,700 other staff
Buildings
- 212 buildings spread over the whole city
- covering 257,000 sqm
Budget
Budget in 2008 (excluding University Clinic): € 240 million
Research
Institutions
- 10 Leibniz-Preis-Awardees
- 9 Collaborative Research Centres (SFB)
- Excellence Cluster "Religion and Politics"
- 4 Priority Programmes
- 2 Research Groups
- 6 Postgraduate Groups
- 4 International Graduate Schools
- 6 Graduate Schools
- 7 Groups of Young Academics
- 2 Research Schools
- 17 Research Centres
- 14 Research Institutes affiliated to the University
- Max-Planck Institute of Vascular Biology
- Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research
External funding
- 2008: € 88 million
- Increasing continuosly
Teaching
Subjects
- more than 110 subjects in 250 courses
Graduates
- around 5,500 graduates each year
Qualifications
- Bachelor/Master: 331
- Teacher training: 1,405
- State examination: 1,234
- Diploma: 1,152
- PhD/MD: 711
- Magister Artium: 563
International
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
- International exchanges
Open to the world
- Around 200 academics are currently visiting the University to teach and do research here
- About 8.1 percent foreign students, in particular from Turkey, eastern Europe, southern and eastern Asia (3,000)
- 1,900 Münster students abroad
