LMU Munich sees itself as a true universitas: Its 18 faculties give some 700 professors and more than 3,000 additional academic staff room to research and teach. It offers a broad and highly differentiated spectrum of learning that includes everything from the humanities and cultural sciences to legal, economic, and social studies, and, of course, medicine and the natural sciences. Three “clusters of excellence” and one graduate school program got the nod in Germany’s “Excellence Initiative” competition launched by the federal and state governments. The accolades mark LMU Munich as the most successful German university in the running. LMU also did well in a very important third funding area, and has adopted LMUexcellent as its leitmotif for the future.
The university is world-famous for its historical main building in the heart of the city, which houses the humanities primarily and is just down the street from the Bavarian State Library (Staatsbibliothek) and numerous important museums and archives. At its HighTechCampus
LMU in Grosshadern-Martinsried, LMU Munich brings together its faculties of medicine, chemistry, and pharmacy as well as biology. A Biomedical Center and the Faculty of Physics will soon be added to this site, a high-tech cluster unique in Europe. The complex also encompasses our interdisciplinary Gene Center, nearby nonuniversity research facilities like the Max- Planck-Institutes, a business incubator, and various biotech companies.
