Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It was founded in 1472 in Ingolstadt and moved to Munich in 1826, taking its name from King Ludwig I. It is a comprehensive university with faculties in the historic city center and a science and hospital campus at Grosshadern and Martinsried in the southwest of the city.

Eighteen faculties cover theology, law, economics, medicine, veterinary medicine, the humanities, psychology and education, mathematics and computer science, physics, chemistry and pharmacy, biology, and geosciences. Graduate research is strong in physics, chemistry, life sciences, medicine, and the humanities. The LMU University Hospital and the biomedical cluster at Martinsried, including the Gene Center, are the main sites for medical and biological doctoral work.

LMU enrolls more than 50,000 students, among the largest student bodies in Germany, with international students around 15 to 20 percent. Academic staff number in the thousands. More than 40 Nobel laureates have been affiliated as students, professors, or researchers. Alumni include physicists Max Planck and Werner Heisenberg and White Rose student Sophie Scholl.

Doctoral study follows the German dissertation-under-supervisor model, with structured graduate schools in many fields; master's degrees are two-year Bologna programs. Winter and summer semesters structure the year. Many doctoral researchers hold salaried posts. Graduate life is urban Munich, with U-Bahn links between the city-center institutes and the Grosshadern hospital and labs.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich lists 13 graduate programs across 6 subjects: 10 master's programs and 3 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, physics and data science & business analytics. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich holds rank 73 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.