| Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | |
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| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | |
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| Latin: Universitas Ludovico-Maximilianea Monacensis | |
| Established | 1472 (as University of Ingolstadt until 1802) |
| Type | Public |
| Rector | Prof. Dr. Bernd Huber |
| Staff | 12.629; 657 Professors (as of winter 2008/2009) |
| Students | 44,064 (as of winter 2008/2009) |
| Location | Munich,  Germany |
| Colours | Green and White |
| Affiliations | German Excellence Universities LERU |
| Website | www.lmu.de/ |
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), also known as LMU, is a university in Munich and, with more than 44,000 students, is the second-largest university in Germany. The majority of foreign exchanges at the University of Munich are with European universities. The main building is situated in Geschwister-Scholl-Platz. The university's main campus is served by the Munich subway's Universität station.
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, Elector of Bavaria. The university was situated in the Old Academy until a new building in the Ludwigstraße was completed.
In 1943 the White Rose group of anti-Nazi students conducted their campaign of opposition to Hitler at this university.
Today the University of 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. 15% of the 45,000 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 the federal state, 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 13 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”.
University buildings
LMU's institutes and research centers are spread throughout Munich, with several buildings located in the suburbs of Oberschleissheim and Garching as well as Maisach and Bad Tölz. The university's main buildings are grouped around Geschwister-Scholl-Platz and Professor-Huber-Platz on Ludwigstrasse, extending into side streets such as Akademiestraße, Schellingstraße, and Veterinärstraße. Other large campuses and institutes are located in Großhadern (Klinikum Großhadern, the Ludwigsvorstadt (Klinikum Innenstadt) and in the Lehel (Institut am Englischen Garten), across from the main buildings, through the Englischer Garten.
Faculties
The university currently consists of 18 faculties:
- Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology
- Faculty of Protestant Theology
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty for History and the Arts
- Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
- Faculty for the Study of Culture
- Faculty for Languages and Literatures
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Sciences
Rankings
LMU is ranked as one of the top 100 universities in the world (55th) according to an international university ranking of over 1000 universities known as the Academic Ranking of World Universities ARWU 2009.[1] U.S. News & World Report has ranked the LMU as one of the worlds best Universities in the following areas: 43rd for Natural and Physical Sciences, 67th for Life Sciences and Biomedicine, 48th for Arts and Humanities, and 77th for Social Sciences. Human Resources & Labor Review, a human competitiveness index & analysis published in Chasecareer Network, ranked the university 38th internationally for 2009 as one of 50 Best World Universities.
Associated research centers
The university also includes the following research departments, which are run cooperatively with other organizations.
The Parmenides Center, run together with the Parmenides Foundation.
The Rachel Carson Center for Environmental Studies, a joint initiative of LMU and Deutsches Museum.
Notable alumni and faculty
Many notable individuals have studied or taught at the University of Munich. For example, 36 nobel laureates are associated with the university. The alumni of Ludwig Maximilian 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 alumnus of the university. Founders of quantum mechanics such as Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and others were associated with the university. Most recently, to honor the Nobel laureate in Chemistry Gerhard Ertl, who worked as a professor at the University of Munich from 1973-1986, the building of the Physical Chemistry was named after him.
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