University of Munich
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| University of Munich link () Website | |
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| Formation | 1472 |
| Headquarters | Munich,Bavaria, Germany |
| Type | Public |
| One of Germany's most important universities | |
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is a public research university located in Munich, Germany.
LMU is currently the second-largest university in Germany in terms of student population; in the winter semester of 2018/2019, the university had a total of 51,606 matriculated students. Of these, 9,424 were freshmen while international students totalled 8,875 or approximately 17% of the student population. As for operating budget, the university records in 2018 a total of 734,9 million euros in funding without the university hospital; with the university hospital, the university has a total funding amounting to approximately 1.94 billion euros.[1]
The University of Munich is associated with 43 Nobel laureates (as of October 2020). Pope Benedict XVI was also a student and professor at the university. Among its notable alumni, faculty and researchers are inter alia Rudolf Peierls, Josef Mengele, Richard Strauss, Walter Benjamin, Joseph Campbell, Marie Stopes, Bertolt Brecht, Max Horkheimer, Karl Loewenstein, Carl Schmitt, Walter Hallstein, Ernst Cassirer, Franz Josef Strauß, Konrad Adenauer.