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Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Location

Campus Westend, Frankfurt am Main Germany

Ranking

# =309QS World University Rankings

About Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Goethe University Frankfurt is a cosmopolitan workshop of the future based in the heart of Europe. Founded in 1914 by Frankfurt citizens, it resumed this tradition as a foundation university in 2008: as an autonomous citizens' university embedded in urban society, both ensuring and offering a high degree of social participation in and support for metropolitan life. With more than 40,000 students, Goethe University Frankfurt is one of Germany’s largest and most research-intensive universities and one of Frankfurt’s largest employers.

As an internationally oriented comprehensive university, Goethe University Frankfurt’s excellent research is clustered along six interdisciplinary, interdepartmental profile areas as well as the diversity of its faculties and subjects, spanning the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, life sciences and medicine. Together with TU Darmstadt and the University of Mainz, it makes up the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) alliance, and is also a member of the “German U15”, the association of the 15 most research-intensive German universities. Goethe University Frankfurt is the only university in the “Frankfurt Alliance” network, whose 15 other members consist of non-university research institutions in the Rhine-Main region.

The university offers of a variety of 170 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in 16 departments from which you can chose the the right subjects for you. Goethe University offers Bachelor and Master programs. Some Master programs are taught completely or partially in English. Medicine, Dentristry and Law are completed with a state examination (Staatsexamen). Furthermore the university offeres a wide variety of subjects with a teaching degree for various schools (primary and secondary school, special school).

About Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

Goethe University Frankfurt is a cosmopolitan workshop of the future based in the heart of Europe. Founded in 1914 by Frankfurt citizens, it resumed this tradition as a foundation university in 2008: as an autonomous citizens' university embedded in urban society, both ensuring and offering a high degree of social participation in and support for metropolitan life. With more than 40,000 students, Goethe University Frankfurt is one of Germany’s largest and most research-intensive universities and one of Frankfurt’s largest employers.

As an internationally oriented comprehensive university, Goethe University Frankfurt’s excellent research is clustered along six interdisciplinary, interdepartmental profile areas as well as the diversity of its faculties and subjects, spanning the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, life sciences and medicine. Together with TU Darmstadt and the University of Mainz, it makes up the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) alliance, and is also a member of the “German U15”, the association of the 15 most research-intensive German universities. Goethe University Frankfurt is the only university in the “Frankfurt Alliance” network, whose 15 other members consist of non-university research institutions in the Rhine-Main region.

The university offers of a variety of 170 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in 16 departments from which you can chose the the right subjects for you. Goethe University offers Bachelor and Master programs. Some Master programs are taught completely or partially in English. Medicine, Dentristry and Law are completed with a state examination (Staatsexamen). Furthermore the university offeres a wide variety of subjects with a teaching degree for various schools (primary and secondary school, special school).

University information

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Rankings & Ratings

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main is one of the top public universities in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is ranked #=309 in QS World University Rankings 2025.

QS World University Rankings

  • 2012
    #=201
  • 2014
    #208
  • 2015
    #217
  • 2016
    #=243
  • 2017
    #=264
  • 2018
    #=254
  • 2019
    #=279
  • 2020
    #291
  • 2021
    #311
  • 2022
    #=340
  • 2023
    #=328
  • 2024
    #=302
  • 2025
    #=309

QS World University Rankings

  • 2012
    #=201
  • 2014
    #208
  • 2015
    #217
  • 2016
    #=243
  • 2017
    #=264
  • 2018
    #=254
  • 2019
    #=279
  • 2020
    #291
  • 2021
    #311
  • 2022
    #=340
  • 2023
    #=328
  • 2024
    #=302
  • 2025
    #=309

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