Universität Bremen

The University of Bremen is a public research university in the city of Bremen, in northern Germany. It opened in 1971 as a campus university with an interdisciplinary curriculum, not a medieval collegiate foundation. That postwar origin and a marine and environmental science profile on the North Sea coast remain its defining structural facts, alongside twelve faculties on one site.

The faculties cover natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, law, and the humanities. Graduate work is most associated with marine geosciences, materials and production engineering, logistics, social policy, and European and international law. MARUM, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, and the German Research Foundation cluster The Ocean Floor are the institutes doctoral students in earth and ocean science join; the university also collaborates with the Alfred Wegener Institute and with port, logistics, and aerospace employers in the region.

Enrollment is about 19,000 students, including several thousand in master's and doctoral programs. International students make up a little more than 10 percent of the student body and come from well over 100 countries. Academic staff, including researchers on external grants, number in the low thousands. Alumni are found mainly in German public administration, marine science, engineering, and logistics.

Graduate study uses consecutive master's degrees and the German doctorate, increasingly through structured graduate schools and research training groups as well as traditional supervisor-led Promotion. The academic year is divided into winter and summer semesters. Doctoral researchers are typically employed on public-sector contracts or hold scholarships. The campus occupies a dedicated district of Bremen, a compact Hanseatic city where graduate housing, labs, and the city center are a short tram ride apart.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Universität Bremen lists 1 master's program, in public health. Universität Bremen holds rank 483 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.