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Freie Universitaet Berlin is one of the leading universities in Germany and distinguishes itself through its modern and international character. In university rankings Freie Universitaet places among the best universities. According to the internationally relevant ranking of The Times Higher Education Supplement, the humanities at Freie Universitaet are the best in Germany. The Funding Rankings of the German Research Foundation DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemein- schaft) place the humanities at Freie Universitaet in first place and the natural sciences in fourth place.

Freie Universitaet is also one of the largest universities in Germany, offering degree courses in about 100 subjects for 34,000 students â of whom 15 per cent come from other countries. For many foreign scholars, such as fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Freie UniversitÃ¤t is the university of preference for their stay in Germany.

Without including Medicine, Freie UniversitÃ¤t is currently lead university for seven collaborative research centers of the German Research Foundation DFG and also has four DFG research units. In addition, because of the wide variety of subjects it offers, Freie UniversitÃ¤t has three collaborative research centers in the humanities and social sciences. Fourteen scholars of Freie UniversitÃ¤t have to date been awarded a Leibniz Prize of the DFG, the most important German prize for research achievements. With the amount of 60 million euros of external funding acquired each year, Freie UniversitÃ¤t canvasses a significant proportion of its income from third-party funds.

Faculty

Number of Faculty Staff	Headcount: 2,236 FTE: 1,764
Total number of academic faculty staff who are responsible for planning, directing and undertaking teaching only, research only or both teaching and research. Please include: vice-chancellors, deputy vice-chancellors, principals, professors, heads of school, associate professors, principal lecturers and tutors. Please exclude research assistants, PhD students who contribute to teaching, and exchange scholars or visiting professors who are members of another university. FAQ: How is research assistant defined?
Number of International Faculty Staff	Headcount: 270 FTE: 224
Number of academic faculty staff who are of foreign nationality. The term �international� is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even if from another EU state. In Hong Kong, this includes professors from Mainland China. Inclusion and exclusion mirrors those for academic faculty staff.

Undergraduate Information

Number of Undergraduate Students	Headcount: 28,062 FTE: 28,062
Number of students pursuing a Bachelor�s level or equivalent degree. This excludes certificates/diplomas and associate�s degrees.
Number of International Undergraduate Students	Headcount: 3,321 FTE: 3,321
Number of undergraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term �international� is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China. Please exclude all exchange students.

Graduate / Postgraduate Information

Number of Graduate / Postgraduate Students	Headcount: 5,711 FTE: 5,711
Students pursuing a higher-level degree (Master and Doctorate), including both taught and research postgraduates (e.g. PhD students)
Number of International Graduate Students	Headcount: 1,826 FTE: 1,826
Number of graduate / postgraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term �international� is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China.

Students

Total Students	Headcount: 33,773 FTE: 33,773
Total number of students.
Total International Students	Headcount: 5,511 FTE: 5,511
Number of students who are foreign nationals. The term �international� is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China.

Graduate Output

Proportion of Graduates Employed	75%
Proportion of graduates (excluding those opting to pursue further study) in permanent employment within 6 months of graduation
Number of PhDs Awarded	542
Total number of PhDs awarded in the last 12 months

Entry Requirements

Avg Entry Requirements	4
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Research Productivity & Quality

Number of Papers	9,006
Total number of papers published in ESI indexed journals in the past 5 years
Number of Citations	66,393
Total number of citations for papers published in ESI indexed journals in the past 5 years

Main claims to international academic or non-academic excellence

International Partnerships
Freie Universität maintains wide-ranging international contacts to other universities and organizations which provide key impulses for research and teaching: In the 1950s, Freie Universität had already established partnerships with leading universities in the United States such as Stanford, Princeton, and Columbia, as well as with Western European universities. First contacts with universities in Eastern Europe were made in the 1970s. In particular in the 1990s, links were extended to include growing numbers of institutions in North America, Eastern Europe, and the Far East.

Academic Exchange
Today, Freie Universität has 130 partnerships worldwide, and every year some 600 visiting scientists contribute to the university’s teaching and research. For the grant programs in Germany, Freie Universität is one of the first choices both for the Erasmus, Tempus, and Socrates programs, as well as for the Fulbright program and the international programs of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). An International Summer University has been set up for foreign students offering internationally accepted credits.

Honorary Doctorates
Outstanding personalities who have recently been awarded honorary doctorates by Freie Universität Berlin include the Nobel laureate in literature, Orhan Pamuk, the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the former General Secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, the physicist Lise Meitner, and the politician Eleanor Dulles, known as the “Mother of Berlin,” who was the sister of the American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.