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Basic information

Teaching staff at the department

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Total number of students at the department

540

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

250

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

13/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

1.0%

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

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Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

A comprehensive German Studies course that prepares students for professional fields (media, publishing, etc.) and Master's degree courses, covers linguistics and literature studies from the Middle Ages to the present, is research-oriented and allows students to focus on literature communication in the media, German as a foreign language or clinical linguistics. High level of practical relevance, for example literature as part of the complex media system (e.g. BookTok and BookTube or gaming) and applied linguistics and speech science.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Linguistics: Career-oriented Master's degree programmes (Clinical Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language) as well as research-oriented Master's degree programmes. Modern German-language Literature Career-oriented Master's degree programmes with a practical (literature communication in the media) and theoretical (text, culture, media) focus; Interculturality; Intermediality, comparative studies. Medieval Studies Digital humanities, textual studies

Special features regarding the international orientation

Double degree with UPEC Paris; Double degree with Tonhgi University in Shanghai; German Studies Institute Partnership (GIP) Marburg-Nijmegen-Poznan; Binational doctorates ("Cotutelle de thèse")

Special features regarding the equipment

Laboratories for experimental research in the field of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics (EEG and eye tracking); Phonetic laboratory with sound booth and ultrasound device for measuring the articulators; Regional language databases with language maps and voice recordings (Research and Documentation Centre); Outpatient Language Therapy Centre; Digital media and media rooms; Archive with around 5,000 medieval German documents (also available digitally in the Marburg document repository) and microfilm archive containing several thousand medieval manuscripts

Special features regarding research activities

Among other things: Academy project for research into modern regional languages of the German-speaking area (REDE.de); Academy project for research into handwritten documents of the Middle Ages (handschriftencensus.de); German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Training Group on Dynamics and Stability of Linguistic Representations (Research Training Group 2700); Pilot project for the digitalisation of bibliographies using the example of the Arthurian Bibliography; 3 projects on digital editions (in collaboration with Heidelberg university library) of the Imperial Chronicle, Lübeck Law, Jeroschin Chronicle

Other special features

Barrier-free access to classrooms and research facilities; Open Educational Resources Strategy of the University of Marburg comprising technologies, services and networking opportunities for the sustainable strengthening and modernisation of the German education system

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

online-application

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Last Update 2025: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education