Freie Universität Berlin

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, tutors or postdoctoral researchers. Please exclude research assistants*, PhD students who contribute to teaching, and exchange scholars or visiting professors who are members of another university. * The important distinction for us is that staff counted as ‘research only’ should be academically involved in that research and should be likely to publish research outputs. A research assistant, in our understanding, is any individual who is not doing own research and is therefore not likely to publish own research outputs. Said individual is (only) involved in research in terms of operation execution , such as lab technician or equipment operator.
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 BachelorÂ’s level or equivalent degree. This excludes certificates/diplomas and associateÂ’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. As for language students, if the language students take up a particular language course that is outlined as ‘undergraduate degree program’ they should be included under ‘international undergraduate students’ . Language students who take part in a course not contributing to a degree qualification should be counted under ‘Total International 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/Postgraduate 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. Please exclude all exchange students. As for language students, if they take up a particular language course that is outlined as ‘postgraduate degree program’, they should be included under ‘international postgraduate students’. Language students who take part in a course not contributing to a degree qualification should be counted under ‘Total International Students’.

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
Please express the average academic achievement entry requirements for your institution. Please convert your domestic requirements to the US Grade Point Average system. The five-point numerical scale is typically correlated with the A-F/A-E quality index. (A=4.0, B=3.0, C=2.0, D=1.0, E or F = 0.0) In our context, a value of 0 will imply to us that your institution has an "open access" admissions policy and will in no way count against your institution in any future table built upon this data. You can use World Education Services (WES) Toolkit as guidline: http://www.wes.org/gradeconversionguide/index.asp (copy and paste)

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.

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• Department of Business and Economics
• Department of Earth Sciences
• Department of Ecucation Science and Psychology
• Department of History and Cultural Studies
• Department of Law
• Department of Philosophy and Humnanities
• Department of Physics
• Department of Political and Social Sciences
• Department of Veterinary Medicine
• Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
• Dept. of Medicine - Charité - University Medicine Berlin
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