Freie Universität Berlin

Freie Universität Berlin is an internationally oriented leading research institution in the southwestern part of the German capital. Approximately 33,500 students study there, and roughly 4,000 doctoral candidates conduct research. About 460 professors teach and conduct research in a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the natural and life sciences. Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is a joint institution of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Freie Universität Berlin was founded in 1948 in response to the increasing political repression at the traditional Berlin university on Unter den Linden, which at that time was located in the Soviet sector of the divided city. Freie Universität Berlin emerged victorious in the three rounds of the German federal and state Excellence Competitions for universities in 2006/2007, 2012, and 2019, and was recognized as a German University of Excellence.