University of Mainz

With about 35,000 students from about 130 nations, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the ten largest universities in Germany. As the only comprehensive university in Rhineland-Palatinate, JGU combines almost all academic disciplines under one roof, including the Mainz University Medical Center, the School of Music, and the Mainz Academy of Arts. This is a unique feature in the German academic landscape. With 75 fields of study and a total of 242 degree courses, including 107 Bachelor’s and 118 Master’s degree programs, JGU offers an extraordinarily broad range of courses.

With the opening of the University of Mainz in 1477, the Archbishop of Mainz, Elector and Chancellor of the German Nation, Diether von Isenburg, realized the dream of his predecessor. His actions were absolutely in line with the spirit of the time, as regional universities had already been founded in almost all of the larger territorial states.

In Mainz, theology, medicine, and Church and Roman law were taught in addition to the seven liberal arts, i.e. grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. This range of subjects was a quite unique feature at the time, because most European universities offered only one or two of these "higher faculties."

JGU is a globally renowned research university of national and international recognition. This reputation comes thanks to its outstanding individual researchers as well as extraordinary research achievements in the field of particle and hadron physics, materials sciences, translational medicine, the life sciences, media disciplines, and historical cultural studies.

The university's good positions in national and international rankings and the award of numerous research prizes are further confirmation of the importance and success of the research being conducted by JGU-based academics. This success has been made possible in part through the unique large-scale research equipment available at Mainz University, such as the TRIGA light water research reactor and the MAMI electron accelerator, which both attract researchers from around the world. The research-oriented teaching – with targeted and early integration of research content into the curriculum – is another key element of the JGU philosophy.

Faculties

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) being a comprehensive university offers a wide range of course and subjects to study. Students can choose from almost all fields of higher education: from jurisprudence and economics to social sciences, the humanities, and natural sciences, from human medicine and dentistry up to an integration of music, arts, and sports – an offer that is unique in the German landscape of higher education.

• Catholic Theology
• Protestant Theology
• Social Sciences, Media, and Sports
• Law, Management and Economics
• University Medicine
• Philosophy and Philology
• Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies
• History and Cultural Studies
• Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science
• Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Geosciences
• Biology
• Mainz School of Music
• Mainz Academy of Arts