Leipzig University

Leipzig University second-oldest university by consecutive years of existence in Germany. the university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Elector of Saxony as living as his brother William II, Margrave of Meissen, as well as originally comprised a four scholastic faculties. Since its inception, the university has engaged in teaching together with research for over 600 years without interruption.

Famous alumni increase Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leopold von Ranke, Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Tycho Brahe, Georgius Agricola, Angela Merkel and the nine Nobel laureates associated with the university.

Academics

Today, the university has 14 faculties. With over 29,000 students, this is the Saxony's second-largest university. There are now more than 150 institutes and the university ensures 190 study programs leading to Bachelor's degrees, Master's degrees, Staatsexamen, Diplom and Ph.D.s.

The university allowed a number of courses in English and other foreign languages, and there are several entry which gain been specially designed for foreign students. Exchange partner universities add the universities of Arizona, Oklahoma, Houston, Alberta, Ohio, and Edinburgh. Traditionally contacts to universities in Eastern Europe and the Far East are strong as well, e.g. there are cooperations with leading institutions such as Moscow's Lomonosov University and Renmin University in Beijing.

There are several International Master's programs: American Studies, Global Studies, Sustainable development Studies, SEPT, a graduate-level peer-reviewed scholarly journal for American studies. Erasmus Mundus Global Studies is an interdisciplinary, research-based Master reported by a consortium of five European universities: Leipzig University, the London School of Economics, University of Vienna, University of Wroclaw and Roskilde University. In the field of anthropology, the university is cooperating with the Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. In 1995, the Leibniz-Institute for Jewish History and Culture named after Simon Dubnow was formed as a research institution related to the university. Since 2008 the university is also domestic to one of Germany's few Confucius Institutes. The institute is based on an agreement of June 2006 between the university administration and representatives of the Chinese Embassy to establish a Confucius Institute in cooperation with the Renmin University and the "National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language". Leipzig University has been the domestic of the first German chair for Chinese and East Asian Languages in the 19th century, which later became the Institute of East Asian Studies, which still exists today see Georg von der Gabelentz.

The university is ranked 18th in Germany, 98th in Europe, and 264th in the world by the web-based Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, a ranking evaluating universities' scientific online publications. The 2018 ]