German Research Institutions

With its strong profile, excellent research capabilities and international focus, the University of Mannheim is one of the best universities in the German-speaking region. Innumerable rankings, awards and surveys among employers corroborate this. The university's hallmark is its well-honed profile, forged by its distinguished economics and social sciences, and their connections with top-performing humanities and cultural studies, law, mathematics and computer science.

Research

The university’s research profile is clearly focussed on empirical and quantitative methods. The primary emphasis is on the investigation of major topics and causal relationships in business, society and culture – e.g. big data, decision-making and voting, governance, regulation, competition and innovation, migration and multilingualism – with a view to determining both basic and applied solutions.