Main building of the Ludwig Maximilians University
Main staircase of the university, Munich
The Atrium at the main building
The 'Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich' (
German: ''Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München''), also known as 'LMU' is a
university in
Munich is the biggest university in Germany with almost 47,000 students.
The majority of University of Munich foreign exchanges are with European universities. The main building is situated in the
Ludwigstrasse .
According to the
Academic Ranking of World Universities (2006), the LMU is the highest ranked German university on place 51, and according to the German
FOCUS ranking, the LMU is the second highest ranked German university (behind the
Technical University of Munich).
History
The university originally existed as the
University of Ingolstadt from
1472 (foundation right of
Louis IX the Rich) to
1802 in
Ingolstadt and was then moved to
Landshut by Maximilian IV Joseph (the later
Maximilian I King of
Bavaria). After a short time it was moved to the capital of Bavaria,
Munich, in the year
1826, by
Louis I. It is named after Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria and Maximilian I, King of Bavaria.
During 1943 the
White Rose group of anti-Nazi students conducted their campaign of opposition to Hitler at this university.
Pope Benedict XVI studied at the
Ducal Georgianum of the university, and later wrote his doctoral thesis and
Habilitation there.
Nowadays the LMU Munich is part of 24 Collaborative Research Centers funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is host university of 13 of them. It also hosts 12 DFG Research Training Groups and three international doctorate programs as part of the Elite Network of Bavaria. It attracts an additional 120 million euros per year in outside funding and is intensively involved in national and international funding initiatives.
LMU Munich has a wide range of degree programs, with 150 subjects available in numerous combinations. 16% of the 47,000 students who attend the university come from abroad.
In 2005, Germany’s state and federal governments launched the
Excellence Initiative, a contest among its universities. With a total of 1.9 billion euros, 75 percent of which comes from
Berlin, its architects aim to strategically promote top-level research and
scholarship. The money is given to more than 30 research universities in Germany.
The Initiative will fund three project-oriented areas:
Graduate schools to promote the next generation of scholars, clusters of excellence to promote cutting-edge research and “future concepts” for the project-based expansion of academic excellence at universities as a whole. In order to qualify for this third area, a university had to have at least one internationally recognized academic
center of excellence and a new graduate school.
After the first round of selections, LMU Munich was invited to submit applications for all three funding lines: It entered the competition with proposals for two graduate schools and four clusters of excellence.
On Friday 13th October 2006, a blue-ribbon panel announced the results of the Germany-wide Excellence Initiative for promoting top university research and education. The panel, composed of the
German Research Foundation and the German Science Council, has decided that LMU Munich will receive funding for all three areas covered by the Initiative: one
Graduate school, three “excellence clusters” and general funding for the university’s “future concept”.
Faculties
The University currently consists of 18 faculties:
★ 01 Faculty of
Roman Catholic Theology
★ 02 Faculty of
Protestant Theology
★ 03 Faculty of
Law
★ 04 Faculty of
Business Administration
★ 05 Faculty of
Economics
★ 07 Faculty of
Medicine
★ 08 Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine
★ 09 Faculty for
History and the
Arts
★ 10 Faculty of
Philosophy,
Philosophy of Science and
Religious Science
★ 11 Faculty of
Psychology and
Educational Sciences
★ 12 Faculty for the Study of
Culture
★ 13/14 Faculty for
Languages and
Literatures
★ 15 Faculty of
Social Sciences
★ 16 Faculty of
Mathematics,
Computer Sciences and
Statistics
★ 17 Faculty of
Physics
★ 18 Faculty of
Chemistry and
Pharmacy
★ 10 Faculty of
Biology
★ 20 Faculty of
Geosciences and
Environmental Sciences
★
★
Paläontologisches Museum München and
Geologisches Museum München
The official numeration of the faculties developed historically: The faculty 6 (Forestry) became part of the
Technical University of Munich by october 1999; the faculty 13/14 was created by merger of two faculties.
Notable alumni and faculty
Main articles: List of Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich people
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich has produced several notable individuals. The alumni of Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich played a major role in the development of
quantum mechanics.
Max Planck, the founder of
quantum theory and Nobel laureate in
Physics in 1918, was an alumni of the university. Founder of
quantum mechanics such as
Werner Heisenberg,
Wolfgang Pauli and others were associated with the university.
Notes
See also
★
Education in Germany
★
List of universities in Germany
★
Munich
External links
★
University of Munich Website
★
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich for foreign students on iAgora - Reviews by former Erasmus and other international students in Munich.
★
360° Panorama at the Ludwig Maximilians University
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