University of Halle-Wittenberg Ranking and Address

University of Halle-Wittenberg Information

The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) was created in it present form in 1817 when two older universities (Halle and Wittenberg) were merged together. This enables the university to trace its roots back to the very start of the 16th century. The university is mainly located in the German city of Halle. Today the university has grown to cater nearly nineteen thousand students and is governed by the rector Wulf Diepenbrock. The University of Halle-Wittenberg ranking is the joint 24th best university in Germany, and in the 432 to 507 range in the world. Similarly rated German colleges include Universität Bielefeld, University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Jena, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg has nine different faculties: Three of these cover the natural sciences, three cover the study of philosophy; the other three are dedicated to the fields of Theology; Medicine; Law and Economics respectively.

As the University of Halle-Wittenberg can trace its roots back over 500 years and has long been seen as a prestigious university in Europe it can associate itself with many famous scholars and faculty including the Nobel prize winners Hermann Staudinger, Karl Ziegler and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Some of the hundreds of others of note include Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Erich Gutenberg, Martin Luther, and Christian Wolff.

University of Halle Wittenberg Address

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Universitätsplatz 10,
06108 Halle
Saxony-Anhalt
Germany

Ranking and Quick Facts

Motto: Zukunft mit Tradition (English: Future with Tradition)

References

University of Halle-Wittenberg; List German Universities