“Connecting Creative Minds – Trinational, European, Global”: This is the motto of the University of Freiburg. Creative Minds are all people at the University of Freiburg: researchers, students, employees, administrative and technical staff. They have made the University of Freiburg one of the most innovative, high-performance universities in Germany and are therefore at the heart of the University’s strategy for the future.

Already a comprehensive university at its founding in 1457, the University of Freiburg still offers undergraduate and graduate studies as well as professorial qualification in all important disciplines today: the humanities, natural and engineering sciences, medicine, law, and theology. This diversity also provides an ideal environment for innovative interdisciplinary studies.

Famous philosophers, top researchers, and Nobel laureates have taught and researched at the University of Freiburg. The university’s top positions in different rankings testify to its position as one of the leading universities.