Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Schlossplatz 2
48149 Münster
Phone: +49 251 83-0

https://www.uni-muenster.de/en/

General remarks

This University is also featured in the U-Multirank world university rankings.

Basic information

Kind of Institution and funding body	University, public
Year of foundation	1780
Total number of Students	44,755
Students at this campus	44,755
Semester contribution	290,94 € *
Tuition fees	There are no study fees.

Subject areas featured in the ranking

Students by area of study

Medicine, Health Science		7.2 %
Mathematics, Natural Sciences		24.9 %
Law, Economic and Social Sciences		32.3 %
Language, Civilisation Studies		27.7 %
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)		3.9 %
Other studies		3.9 %

Students by type of degree pursued

Bachelor's degree		33.6 %
Master's degree		14.4 %
Teacher qualification degree		26.1 %
Pre-Bologna degrees		24.3 %
Other types of degrees		1.6 %

Central services

Opening hours central student counselling

please see university website (link below) more information

Special features regarding the library

The library system is divided into the central university library and about 100 decentralized libraries; it encompasses a total of about 6.7 million volumes. The university library (ULB) ensures a comprehensive and rapid supply of all academic information available at the WWU directly to the workspace by providing digitalisations and electronic full texts. An integrated search engine allows this information to be searched together with the literature stock. The ULB supports research as a partner in the field of eScience, e.g in the context of digital humanities. more information

Foreign language courses

There is a foreign language centre. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Turkish, Arabic, Ancient Greek, German (preparatory, accompanying studies or guest researcher) more information

Special features regarding university sports

The university offers its own sports programme. Participation is subject to fees. As well as students and employees of the University of Münster, those also eligible to participate include the University of Applied Sciences Münster, the Kunstakademie, KathFH, DHPol. The spectrum includes all known sports (153 different offers), which are offered in popular health sports courses and sports tours (e.g. skiing, canoeing, surfing, diving). Weekly participants approx. 25,000. In addition, trainer courses, tournaments in popular sports tournaments (Nikolaus tournament) and German University Championships are organised. As a partner university for top-level sports, WWU plays a large role in promoting student athletes. more information