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VISITING GERMANY – SCIENCE: BERLIN – About Freie Universität Berlin
About Freie Universität Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin is a leading research institution. It is one of the German universities successful in all three funding lines in the federal and state Excellence Initiative, thereby receiving additional funding for its institutional future development strategy.
Freie Universität can thus take its place as an international network university in the global competition among universities. Development and assessment of research projects takes place within various focus areas, research networks, and platforms for interdisciplinary collaborative research.
The university’s performance in the Excellence Initiative provided funding for several new graduate schools and transdisciplinary research clusters. In particular, the graduate schools play a key role in the development of internationally competitive research centers of excellence.
Freie Universität Berlin is a full university with 15 departments and central institutes offering over 150 degree programs across a wide range of subjects.
Studying at Freie Universität Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin offers more than 150 degree programs in all subject areas. The university’s Info-Service Studium which responds to about 220,000 queries annually, provides comprehensive advice services for students beginning with the application process and continuing throughout their courses of study.
Exchange programs for students have played an important role from the very beginning on.
Currently, Freie Universität participates in the European Tempus and Erasmus programs and also maintains agreements with numerous brilliant universities for direct exchange.
Junior researchers are supported in Ph.D. programs under the auspices of Dahlem Research School. Many well-known personalities from politics and society studied and taught at Freie Universität.
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Information on Bachelor's and Master's programs, Doctoral programs, General professional skills (ABV), Program structure… - Organization
Admissions instructions, Student records and registration office, Campus Management, Study and examination regulations, Academic calender… - International
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Research at Freie Universität Berlin
Research at Freie Universität Berlin is characterized by the diversity of the science networks it maintains as well as by interdisciplinary fields of research that establish research foci and set future research trends.
Freie Universität Berlin promotes the transfer of knowledge and offers junior scholars a high level of education.
Science Networks
Intensive cooperation with other universities and external research institutions as well as private enterprise reinforces and broadens the fundamental, application, and contract research carried out at Freie Universität as well as the university’s position as a competitive research institution on a global scale. Read more
Departments and Institutions at Freie Universität Berlin
These pages contain introductory information and contact details about the academic departments, central institutes, interdisciplinary academic centers, the university management and boards, the central university administration, central service institutions, libraries, and other facilities.
Using the search field at the top of the page, all of the main pages under www.fu-berlin.de as well as the web pages of the various departments can be searched. There is an alphabetical Index for all the central web pages of the university.
Collaboration at Freie Universität Berlin
Research and teaching at Freie Universität Berlin benefit greatly from the university's diverse international ties to universities and other organizations.
Freie Universität maintains a broad range of cooperative arrangements all over the world. The university works together with regional, national, and international partners in academia, the business sector, politics, arts and culture, and society at large.
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