The Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, founded in 1558, with its 20,000 students distributed over ten different schools, leaves its mark on the image of the town. Students of either the university or the university of applied sciences make one quarter of the inhabitants of Jena.
Approximately 340 professors and 6,400 members of staff work at university and university hospital, the latter of which keeps developing into one of the most modern hospitals in Germany.
The university puts emphasis on intensely taking care of its students, and works on creating a “Students’ Paradise in Jena. (www.studentenparadies.uni-jena.de) Special programmes support students from abroad. When it comes to teaching, Jena University combines tradition and innovation: apart from medicine, physics, psychology, theology, law, mathematics, philosophy, business studies and economics, or sports, bio and social sciences – all of which are highly ranked – the so-called “smaller subjects”, like for instance caucasiology, Romanian or Indo-Germanic studies, are sustained.
The wide range of opportunities for studying at Thuringia’s only classical university shapes its appearance as well as its attitude: to act without limits – interdisciplinarily and internationally. Therefore, a clear research profile has been established and will be further developed.
In 2008 Jena has been awarded the title Germany’s “City of Sciences”. And, in the future, the university wants to sustain a strong influence on teaching, research and culture nationally and internationally.
University of Jena, Germany
Web: www.uni-jena.de
Contact: University of Jena
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