Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the largest and most diverse universities in Germany with around 31,000 students from 120 nations. With her university medicine, her colleges of art and music and her department of translation, linguistics and cultural studies in Germersheim, she unites almost all academic disciplines under one roof. Its more than 100 institutes and clinics teach and research about 4,400 scientists, including 580 professors. With 75 subjects and numerous specialist combinations, the JGU offers more than 260 study programs. As the only German university of its size, the JGU accommodates almost all institutes on a campus close to the city center, on which four partner institutes of non-university research are located: the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPI-C), the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) and the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB). The campus of the University Medical Center is only about a kilometer away, the two Mainz Institutes of the Leibniz Association - the Institute for European History (IEG) and the Roman-Germanic Central Museum (RGZM) - are located a little further away in the city center. In addition, there are numerous research companies that make Mainz a highly dynamic research location.