Facts and Information
Universität Augsburg
Universität Augsburg
Remarks
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Subject areas featured in the ranking
- Business Administration (Last update 2020) - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- Business Administration (Last update 2020) - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät - FIM
- Business Informatics (Last update 2020)
- Computer Science (Last update 2018)
- Economics (Last update 2020)
- Education Science (Last update 2019)
- English / North American Studies (Last update 2019)
- Geography (Last update 2018)
- German Language and Literature (Last update 2019)
- Industrial Engineering (Last update 2020)
- Law (Last update 2020)
- Mathematics (Last update 2018)
- Mechanical / Materials / Process Engineering (Last update 2019)
- Physics (Last update 2018)
- Political Science (Last update 2018)
- Romance Studies (Last update 2019)
- Sports Sciences (Last update 2018)
Basic information
Kind of Institution and funding body
University, public
Year of foundation
1970
Total number of Students
19,657
Students at this campus
19,657
Semester contribution
no data
Tuition fees
no data
Students by area of study
Medicine, Health Science
0%
Natural Sciences, Mathematics
13.4%
Law, Economic and Social Sciences
48.1%
Humanities, Languages
24.6%
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)
9%
Other studies
5%
Students by type of degree pursued
Bachelor's degree
49.4%
Master's degree
15.3%
Teacher qualification degree
20.4%
Pre-Bologna degrees
14.1%
Other types of degrees
0.8%
Central services
Opening hours central student counselling
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Special features regarding the library
The university library is situated on the campus, directly beside the lecture theatres and classrooms. It is open until midnight on weekdays and from 12:00 to 18:00 on Sundays; it has around 1,500 workspaces. In addition to the main library, there are three branch libraries for Humanities, Social Sciences (including Economics and Law) and Natural Sciences, including around 1 million volumes in reading rooms and with textbook collections. The online catalogue provides access to the print and electronic stock (also accessible via smartphone): The university library additionally possesses valuable old stocks and historic special collections.
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Foreign language courses
There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, Swedish, Romanian, German as a Foreign Language.
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Special features regarding university sports
The university offers its own sports programme. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. All students and employees of Munich's state universities can take part in the Munich university sports. In addition, various non-state universities, institutions and groups have been granted eligibility. Around 90 sports, including badminton, baseball, basketball, bridge, football, golf, handball, hockey, wheelchair basketball, tennis, volleyball, climbing, fitness / health sports (yoga, Pilates, aerobics, aquapower), physical fitness, martial arts ( aikido, boxing, fencing, karate, self-defence, tae kwon do), dance (ballet, capoeira, hip hop, wheelchair dance, salsa, standard / latin, Zumba), recreational sports (acrobatics, juggling / unicycle, parkour), gymnastics & athletics, water sports (canoeing, rowing, sailing, swimming, diving, underwater hockey), alpine skiing, free ride, snowboarding, ice hockey, horse riding. The programme is open to: Students of all higher education institutions in Munich. 90 Sports from A like aerobics to Y like yoga. In addition to the superb, extensive and extremely varied sports programme, performance-oriented students can participate in the central university sport competition programme, from the German University Championships to the student European and World championships, including the World Student Games, the world's second largest sports event after the Olympic Games.
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Last update 2021: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education