Johannes Gutenberg University - Mainz

Located in Mainz, a city of both tradition and progress, our University is one of the largest in Germany, and it is the research center of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. We attract students and scholars from all over the world, we hold national conferences, and we regularly host international symposia on a wide spectrum of academic fields.

Named after the famous fifteenth-century printer who revolutionized printing with movable types, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz combines stimulating academic diversity with excellent research structures: About 480 professors and 2,400 members of our academic staff research and teach in our ten departments and 150 institutes, at the School of Music and at the Mainz Academy of Arts. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is proud to host 9 Collaborative Research Centers, 11 Research Units, and 7 Research Training Groups, all funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), as well as numerous research initiatives funded by other sources, both public and private. In addition, our campus is home to the Max Planck Institutes for Polymer Research and Chemistry.

With degree programs available in more than ninety subjects and in numerous combinations, the range of courses we offer is extremely wide and covers all areas, be it the humanities, social studies, law, economics, or medicine. Moreover, the integration of the Mainz Academy of Arts and the School of Music is unique in the German landscape of higher education. Currently, some 35,100 students, 14 percent of them from abroad, take advantage of these opportunities.

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