University of Frankfurt Ranking and Address

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University am Main Information

Named after the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe the full name of the University of Frankfurt is called the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main and is located in the west of Germany. The University of Frankfurt ranking is the 6th best university in Germany, and 136th in the world. Similarly rated German colleges include University of Göttingen, University of Bonn, University of Freiburg, and University of Münster.

The university is particularly renowned for it’s school of philosophy and social though which has produced some of the most prominent philosophers and sociologists of the 20th century.

There are 10 major areas of study at the University of Frankfurt, these are Cultural and Civilization Studies; Financial Studies; History; Law and Finance; Modern Languages and Linguistics; Medicine; Natural sciences; Philosophy; Protestant Theology; Roman Catholic Theology.

The University of Frankfurt  has a strength in sociological related subjects and many of its most famous alumni can be found in this area; these include Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Karl Mannheim, Max Wertheimer, Franz Rosenzweig and Norbert Elias.

University of Frankfurt Address

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University am Main
Senckenberganlage 31
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Ranking and Quick Facts

University of Frankfurt
University world Ranking – Times 400 (UK)
= 209
University world Ranking – Jiaotong 500 (China)
102 to 150
European Rank (Jiaotong)
35 to 56
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University am Main Facts
Students (Undergraduates / PG/ Total)
32,850
Established
1912

References

University of Frankfurt; German Universities

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