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Profile of the WWU Münster
Organization
- 15 departments in
- 7 faculties
Numbers of students
- 40.000 Students (winter semester 2006/07)
- Percentage of women: just over 50 percent
Employees
5,000 staff (excluding student assistants), including
- 600 professors
- 2.700 research assistants
- 1.700 other staff
Buildings
- 285 buildings spread over the whole city
- covering 240,000 sqm
Budget
Budget in 2005 (excluding University Clinic): € 280 million
Research
Institutions
- 8 Collaborative Research Centres (SFB)
- 3 Priority Programmes
- 7 Postgraduate Groups:
- 2 Graduate Schools
- 8 Groups of Young Academics
- 15 Research Centres
- 14 Research Institutes affiliated to the University
- Max-Planck Institute of Vascular Biology
- Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research
External funding
- 2005: € 68.4 million
- Increase by more than one-third over the past five years
Teaching
Subjects
- over 130 subjects in 15 departments
Graduates
- around 4,700 graduates in 2005
- in 4th place in Germany
Qualifications
- Teacher training: 1.200 (to be changed over to Bachelor/ Master)
- State examination: 1.000
- Diploma: 1100
- PhD/MD: 800
- Magister Artium: 500 (expiring)
- Bachelor/Master: 50 (under development)
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 9 percent foreign students, in particular from Turkey, eastern Europe, southern and eastern Asia (3,600)
- 1,900 Münster students abroad
