Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Saarstraße 21
55099 Mainz
Phone: +49 6131 39-0

http://www.uni-mainz.de/eng/

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	1477
Total number of Students	31,819
Students at this campus	30,315
Semester contribution	319,15 € *
Tuition fees	There are no study fees.

Subject areas featured in the ranking

Students by area of study

Medicine, Health Science		12.7 %
Natural Sciences, Mathematics		21.8 %
Law, Economic and Social Sciences		33.3 %
Humanities, Languages		22.6 %
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)		2.2 %
Other studies		7.4 %

Students by type of degree pursued

Bachelor's degree		39.3 %
Master's degree		15.1 %
Teacher qualification degree		17.9 %
Pre-Bologna degrees		26.6 %
Other types of degrees		1.1 %

Central services

Opening hours central student counselling

please see university website (link below) more information

Special features regarding the library

Around 3.5 million printed media, 41,000 licensed e-journals and 69,000 e-books; over 3,500 learning and work spaces; open 16 hours a day, 14 hours at weekends; wide range of seminars, guided tours and courses for around 3,400 participants; 3.1 million visitors; University collections, university archives, academic integrity services, digital publishing solutions, scientific data management, and visibility of research results; electronic repositories, archive systems and databases for research, teaching and study more information

Foreign language courses

There is a foreign language centre. Chinese, English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish. more information

Special features regarding university sports

The university offers its own sports programme. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. There are currently participation cooperations with: Mainz University, Catholic University of Mainz, Bingen University, Rhein-Main University of Applied Sciences (locations Wiesbaden and Rüsselsheim). Currently about 60 different types of sport available; The practically-oriented further education offered for instructors is recognised to extend the validity of a German Olympic Sports Confederation instructor license for popular and leisure sports by the Rheinhessen sports association. more information