University of Munster
EXCELLENT PROSPECTS Munster offers a unique symbiosis between dedicated research work and a high quality of life. And this makes Munster attractive. With its wide range of research areas and excellent working conditions, as well as its intensive support for junior academics, WWU Munster has a strong appeal to researchers, academics and Copperation partners. The Religion and Politics excellence cluster shows how the interdisciplinary approach to research at WWU works in practice. Over 40,000 students make WWU the sixth-largest university in Germany. The teaching offered by a total of 15 faculties comprises 275 courses of study in 120 subjects covering practically all areas of the humanities, social sciences, medicine and natural sciences.
The WWU Munster has developed a strong research profile in each of the five major research areas of natural sciences, life sciences, mathematics, the humanities and social sciences, as well as economics and law. The specific support of top-level research in high-performance areas is directed towards an interdisciplinary environment and is combined with promotion of first-class junior research staff. At the same time, by ensuring that broad research can be carried out it creates a secure basis on which excellence can thrive. ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE For the WWU Munster, promoting excellence is a dynamic process which takes up new academic and social challenges and responds appropriately. WWU`s central tasks include not only the achievement of outstanding research results, but also the promotion of new fields of research which take up novel social and academic challenges. Successful work in many areas of research today requires interdisciplinary Copperation of researchers from various fields. The WWU aims at a comprehensive use of its multidisciplinary potential to promote cross-discipline groups of researchers providing the critical mass necessary for excellent research work. This occurs in the understanding that true scientifc advance is mainly created at the edges or in the overlap of research fields. On top of that the WWU promotes broad research on a wide range of subjects as a basis for the continual creation of new focuses of top-level research.
Foundation year: 1780
Short name: WWU
Type: Public
Students: 42970
Faculty: 1050
Faculty/Students Ratio: 41:1
Region: Europe
Location: Munster
