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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
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- University
Basic information
- Kind of Institution and funding body
- University, public
- Year of foundation
- 1477
- Total number of Students
- 29,490
- Students at this campus
- 862
- Semester contribution
- 356.80 €
- Tuition fees
- no data
Students by type of degree pursued
- Bachelor's degree
- 42.6%
- Master's degree
- 47.9%
- Teacher qualification degree
- 0%
- Pre-Bologna degrees
- 0%
- Other types of degrees
- 9.4%
Central services
Opening hours central student counselling
Special features regarding the library
Stock: Around 3.4 million printed media, 44,000 licensed e-journals and 1.3 million e-books; Services: around 3,400 learning and workspaces; Open 16 hours, open 14 hours at weekends; Wide range of courses, guided tours, courses for 6,000 participants; 2.3 million visitors; University collections, university archives, academic integrity services, digital publishing solutions, academic data management and visibility of research results, audio-visual media production; Electronic repositories, archive systems and databases for research, teaching, study
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Foreign language center and courses
There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish
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Special features regarding university sports
The university offers its own sports programme. There are currently participation cooperations with: Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Mainz Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Bingen University of Applied Sciences, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (Wiesbaden and Rüsselsheim campuses), European Management School Mainz. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. Currently about 65 different types of sport available; The practically-oriented further education offered for instructors is recognised to extend the validity of a German Olympic Sports Confederation instructor license for popular and leisure sports by the Rheinhessen sports association.
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Last update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education