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University of Münster

Schlossplatz 2, 48149 Münster

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University of Münster

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University of Münster – wissen.leben
The University of Münster is known for its excellent research, high standard of education, active support of early career researchers and its family-friendliness. Its wide variety of courses and excellent reputation for research, combined with Münster's ambience and quality of life, make the university a magnet for students and researchers both from Germany and abroad. As a university with strong regional ties and a global outlook, it promotes international exchange, collaboration between disciplines and the transfer of scientific findings into professional practice and the public domain.

Top-level research

Along with the interdisciplinary Clusters of Excellence “Religion and Politics” and “Cells in Motion”, there are numerous other fields in which the university conducts leading-edge research, such as infection research, cell research, chemistry and physics and mathematics. The university is lead university in seven DFG Collaborative Research Centres. Along with other research projects with DFG funding, a growing proportion of programmes is funded by the Federal Government and European Union or through foundations.

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Affiliated institutions

  • Center for Digital Humanities (CDH)
  • Center for Nonlinear Science (CeNoS)
  • Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN)
  • Centre for Bioethics
  • Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research (CMF)
  • Centre for Religion and Modernity (CRM)
  • Centre for Religious Studies
  • Cluster of Excellence Cells in Motion
  • Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics
  • FB 01: Faculty of Protestant Theology
  • FB 02: Faculty of Catholic Theology
  • FB 03: Faculty of Law
  • FB 04: School of Business and Economics
  • FB 05: Faculty of Medicine
  • FB 06: Faculty of Educational and Social Science
  • FB 07: Faculty of Psychology/Sport and Exercise Sciences
  • FB 08: Faculty of History and Philosophy
  • FB 09: Faculty of Philology
  • FB 10: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
  • FB 11: Faculty of Physics
  • FB 12: Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
  • FB 13: Faculty of Biology
  • FB 14: Faculty of Geosciences
  • FB 15: University of Music
  • Central Unit: University Sports
  • International Center for the Study of Giftedness (ICBF)
  • Mathematics Münster Cluster of Excellence
  • Multiscale Imaging Center
  • Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology (MEET)
  • Collaborative Research Center 1385: Law and Literature
  • Münster University Hospital (UKM)
  • Forest Centre
  • Centre for University Teaching (ZHL)
  • Centre for Islamic Theology Münster
  • Centre for Teacher Training
  • Centre of Studies on the Netherlands
  • Center for Philosophy of Science (ZfW)

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