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94 27   Arts & Humanities77  Natural Sciences
225  Engineering & IT47  Social Sciences
World Rankings137  Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Source: Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings Copyright © 2009 QS Intelligence Unit
137= 24   Arts & Humanities82  Natural Sciences
253  Engineering & IT62  Social Sciences
World Rankings177  Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Source: Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings Copyright © 2009 QS Intelligence Unit
146 38  Arts & Humanities102  Natural Sciences
291  Engineering & IT61  Social Sciences
World Rankings132  Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Source: Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings Copyright © 2009 QS Intelligence Unit
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Freie Universitaet Berlin - The International Network University

Faculty

Number of Faculty Staff Headcount: 2,363 FTE: 1,858

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 faculty staff 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: 321 FTE: 263

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. In case of dual citizenship, the 'deciding' criteria should be 'citizenship obtained through birth', basically first passport obtained.

Undergraduate Information

Number of Undergraduate Students Headcount: 26,629 FTE: 26,629

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: 3,110 FTE: 3,110

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. In case of dual citizenship, the 'deciding' criteria should be 'citizenship obtained through birth', basically first passport obtained. 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: 5,806 FTE: 5,806

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: 1,472 FTE: 1,472

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. In case of dual citizenship, the 'deciding' criteria should be 'citizenship obtained through birth', basically first passport obtained. 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: 32,555 FTE: 32,555

Total number of students.
Total International Students Headcount: 5,589 FTE: 5,589

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. In case of dual citizenship, the 'deciding' criteria should be 'citizenship obtained through birth', basically first passport obtained.

Graduate Output

Proportion of Graduates Employed Headcount: 70 %

Proportion of graduates (excluding those opting to pursue further study) in permanent employment within 6 months of graduation
Number of PhDs Awarded Headcount: 580

Total number of PhDs awarded in the last 12 months

Entry Requirements

Avg Entry Requirements Headcount: 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)

Main claims to international academic or non-academic excellence

The International Network University
With its institutional strategy, rewarded in 2007 in the "Initiative for Excellence" for German universities, Freie Universitaet Berlin builds upon and expands its international research networks.

International Partnerships
Freie Universitaet maintains wide-ranging international contacts to other universities and organizations which provide key impulses for research and teaching: In the 1950s, Freie Universitaet 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. The newly established Center for International Cooperation (CIC) concentrates on identifying new strategic partners for international projects.

Academic Exchange
Today, Freie Universitaet 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 Universitaet is one of the first choices both for the Erasmus and Tempus 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 Universitaet 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 - sister of former US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles - who is known as the "Mother of Berlin."

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  • 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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