About University of Freiburg

Comprehensive University
Already a comprehensive university at its founding in 1457, the University of Freiburg still offers undergraduate and graduate studies as well as professorial qualification in all important disciplines today: the humanities, natural and engineering sciences, medicine, law, and theology. This diversity also provides an ideal environment for innovative interdisciplinary studies.

Excellence
Many famous philosophers, top researchers, and Nobel laureates have taught and researched at the University of Freiburg. The university’s recent success in the “Excellence” competitions, 2007 for research and 2009 for instruction, testifies to its position as one of the leading universities of the 21st century.



Minds
More than 21,000 students from over 100 nations are matriculated in 160 degree programs at 11 faculties. More than 5,000 professors and lecturers and many other employees put in their effort every day – and experience that family friendliness, equal opportunity, and environmental protection are more than just empty phrases here.
Alumni, Benefactors, Sponsors
Numerous former students as well as benefactors and sponsors intensify a culture of dynamic exchange with the city, the region, and the international scientific community.

Future
All of these groups work to give the University of Freiburg the vitality that will continue to provide fertile ground for outstanding achievements in the future. We are always eager to welcome more intelligent minds to our university.



Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments to Promote Top-Level Research at German Universities

In 2007 the University of Freiburg received the highest possible distinction in the nationwide Excellence Initiative of the federal and state governments. The university is one of only nine German universities to be successful in all three areas of this competition (Graduate School, Cluster of Excellence, Institutional Strategy “Windows for Research”) and to receive the highest level of funding.
More information on the Excellence Initiative

“Excellent Teaching” Competition of the State Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Stifterverband for German Science and Research

In 2009 the University of Freiburg was distinguished in the nationwide “Excellent Teaching” competition, organized by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Stifterverband for German Science and Research. The funding enables the university to offer its lecturers the freedom they need to develop innovative new forms of teaching and learning, thus realizing the instructional concept “Windows for Higher Education.”
More information on the Excellent Instruction competition.