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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

4,700

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

30

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

9/14 points

Results of study

Exam results

no data

Exam preparation

7/8 points

Research

Doctorates per professor

2.2

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Career and practical orientation
Learning and working spaces
Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital learning
Assistance with exam preparation
Share of external repetitions visited

56.8%

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Introduction to scientific work
Rooms
Library
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

563

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Extensive range of courses offered; Broad spectrum of basic courses; wide array of specialist studies; distinct international focus; research results have a direct influence on the content and range of courses offered; Extensive range of key skills; Various supplementary and postgraduate courses; inter-disciplinary range of courses offered; Subject-specific foreign language training in three languages; Exam workshop (one-on-one advice); Seminar exercises; Extensive university revision course and comprehensive range of Unirep Online services (learning platform, etc.); Revision working groups.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Extensive range of courses offered; research results have a direct influence on the content and range of courses offered; Extensive range of key skills; various supplementary and postgraduate courses;

Special features regarding the international orientation

Professorship of Foreign and International Law; A significant proportion of the professorships are characterised by their international focus; Centre for Advanced Legal Studies (fellowships for foreign Scientist; conferences; series of articles); Numerous presentations by visiting academics from around the world; A large number of long-term partnership agreements with universities around the world to promote student mobility (particularly high number of outgoings, approx. 200 per academic year), as well as scientists; Foundation of the Münster School of International Studies in summer semester 2022

Special features regarding the equipment

Extensive national and international databases (e.g. Juris, beck-online, Westlaw, Heine-Online) with remote access for students; comprehensive laptop workstations in the library; Meeting rooms; CIP rooms with large monitors for better research; internal WAP programme to improve the IT facilities for academics; Lecture halls fully equipped with projectors, cameras, video conferencing equipment, etc.; whiteboards in all seminar rooms of the faculty; I-displays for up-to-date information in front of the libraries.

Special features regarding research activities

Broad spectrum of research; prominent basic research; Balanced mixture of subject-focused research and inter-disciplinary research; Recognised internationally; Orientation towards social change (e.g. in the field of artificial intelligence, ITM, criminology)

Other special features

Measures towards inclusion: Special guidance offerings geared towards students with disabilities or chronic illness; barrier-free departmental libraries; Application for special consideration due to disability possible in the case of examinations.; Reporting system geared towards discriminatory issues; Commission for Equal Opportunities and Diversity, inter alia, to introduce and establish new measures to ensure freedom from discrimination in studies and teaching

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Acronyms

(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

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Value in points

Euro

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Last Update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education