The range of courses at Justus Liebig University (JLU) is unique. Like other universities it offers on the one hand natural sciences, law, economics and social sciences, educational sciences as well as linguistic and cultural sciences. On the other hand it offers also medicine and veterinary medicine, agricultural sciences, environmental sciences and dietetics as well as food chemistry.

Giessen University was founded during the second big central European foundation age and is over 400 years old. Today 26,500 students are enrolled at this modern college that has 333 professors and 4.213 scientific staff members. Among the Nobel Prize Laureates who have done research at the JLU and have taught there, is for example Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Nobel prize for physics in 1901).

Giessen University maintains eleven departments, two special research fields and nine scientific centers. Since 2006 the JLU is promoted in the first as well as in the second conveyor line of the initiative of excellence. It has six postgraduate colleges and three postgraduate centers, new scientific centers and seven research groups.

Also internationally JLU does well: over 70 cooperation worldwide, 210 ERASMUS partner colleges in Europe and about 2,300 foreign students.

Further information: www.uni-giessen.de

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