University of Mainz

University of Mainz

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Type	public
Established	1477
President	Georg Krausch
Students	37,039
Location	Mainz, Germersheim , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany
Website	www.uni-mainz.de

The Universität Mainz (German: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; abbreviation: JGU) is a university in Mainz, Germany. It was founded in the year 1477. In 2012, there were more than 36,000 students.

The University of Mainz has ten faculties:

• Theology
• Social sciences, Media and Sport
• Jurisprudence and Economics
• Medicine
• Philosophy
• Linguistics
• History
• Physics, Mathematics and Computer science
• Chemistry, Pharmacy and Earth sciences
• Biology

Other websites

• Website of the University of Mainz Archived 2012-08-30 at the Wayback Machine