Free University of Berlin

The Freie Universität Berlin ("Free University of Berlin", often abbreviated as FU Berlin) is a university in Berlin. It is known for its research in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in the field of natural and life sciences.
The university was founded in Berlin-Dahlem, a district in the south west of Berlin during the time of the Cold War in 1948. Today, the university has three bigger campuses: the main campus Dahlem, the Campus Düppel with animal clinics and other institutes related to veterinary medicine and the Geocampus in Lankwitz, which is home to the Department of Earth Sciences. The medical department of the FU Berlin is part of the Charité - University Medicine Berlin, a joint institution with the Humboldt University. The university library has a total of about 8.5 million volumes and is the biggest university library system in Germany. Freie Universität has over 400 partner universities all over the world, many of them through the ERASMUS programme. According to various international rankings, Freie Universität is one of the best universities in Germany. In 2007 (and 2012 again), the Freie Universität was one of eleven universities to be successful in the German Excellence Initiative, a national competition by the German government. University alumni include five Nobel Prize winners and 15 winners of the national Leibniz Prize.

 Academics 
Freie Universität offers over 150 different subjects in 12 departments and three central institutes:
Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy
Department of Earth Sciences
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Department of Law
School of Business and Economics
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of Education and Psychology
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Department of Physics
Department of Political and Social Science
Medical School: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (shared with the Humboldt University Berlin)
Department of Veterinary Medicine

Interdisciplinary Central Institutes
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Institute for Eastern European Studies
Institute for Latin American Studies

The Botanical Garden with over 22,000 different kinds of plants is one of the biggest in the world.

References

Other websites

Official Homepage
Berlin Mathematical School (BMS)
Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden

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