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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Remarks
This University is also featured in the U-Multirank world university rankings.
Subject areas featured in the ranking
- Biochemistry (Last update 2021)
- Biology / Bioscience (Last update 2021)
- Business Administration (Last update 2023)
- Chemistry (Last update 2021)
- Computer Science (Last update 2021)
- Dentistry (Last update 2021)
- Economics (Last update 2023)
- Education Science (Last update 2022)
- Geography (Last update 2021)
- Geoscience (Last update 2021)
- German Language and Literature (Last update 2022)
- Law (Last update 2023)
- Mathematics (Last update 2021)
- Medicine (Last update 2021)
- Pharmacy (Last update 2021)
- Physics (Last update 2021)
- Political Science / Social Sciences (Last update 2021)
- Psychology (Last update 2022)
- Romance Studies (Last update 2022)
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Legend:
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Basic information
- Kind of Institution and funding body
- University, public
- Year of foundation
- 1472
- Total number of Students
- 51,005
- Students at this campus
- 51,005
- Semester contribution
- 138.00 €
- Tuition fees
- There are no study fees.
Students by area of study
- Medicine, Health Science
- 13.6%
- Natural Sciences, Mathematics
- 19%
- Law, Economic and Social Sciences
- 30.3%
- Humanities, Languages
- 24.8%
- Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)
- 6.5%
- Other studies
- 5.8%
Students by type of degree pursued
- Bachelor's degree
- 38.4%
- Master's degree
- 14.7%
- Teacher qualification degree
- 15.5%
- Pre-Bologna degrees
- 29.3%
- Other types of degrees
- 2.1%
Central services
Opening hours central student counselling
Special features regarding the library
Locations: Library system with several locations close to the faculty (central library, central textbook collection, 14 specialised libraries, other medium-sized and small libraries); Stock: Approx. 5.3 million media (printed and electronic books and journals); significant old stock: 3,400 manuscripts, 475,000 old prints up to 1900 (including 3,600 incunabula); Services: Comprehensive stock of electronic media (books, journals, databases) that can be used anywhere and at any time; Wide range of training courses on literature research and management; 3,500 reading spaces and workspaces in the libraries; Services in (electronic) publishing (e.g. open access server with top positions in the Web of Repositories ranking) and research data management; Digitisation of the historic collections; Scanning services (e.g. campus delivery service for LMU academics)
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Foreign language center and courses
There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, Albanian, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Korean, Mongolian, Modern Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Sanskrit, Serbian/Croatian, Thai, Czech.
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Special features regarding university sports
The university does not have its own sports programme. 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. Participation is subject to fees. The ZHS offer includes sports from the fields of ball and game sports, mountain and climbing sports, fitness and health sports, martial arts, dance, trend and leisure sports, gymnastics and athletics, water sports and winter sports. We have a varied course programme for each target group with around 600 individual events per semester. In addition to the grass-roots sports activities, the university sports centre (ZHS) enables performance-oriented students to participate in national and international university championships. The career of many top athletes began in student competitions.
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Last update 2024: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
