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Acceptance rate

15%

Enrollment

37,908

Languages

German;English

Type

Non-profit

Funding

Public-private partnership

Highest Degree

Doctorate

Acceptance rate & Admissions

Acceptance Rate15%
Admissions RequirementsSecondary school certificate (Reifezeugnis). Certificate of excellent knowledge of German
Academic CalendarOctober to July (October - February; April-July)
Enrollment37,908

We've calculated the 15% acceptance rate for Free University of Berlin based on the ratio of admissions to applications and other circumstantial enrollment data. Treat this information as a rough guide and not as a definitive measure of your chances of admission. Different programs may have significantly varying admissions rates.

Tuition

Below is the standard credit pricing for the various degree levels offered at Free University of Berlin.

Degree Level Cost Per Credit
Associate Degree 1,749 CR
Bachelor Program 1,950 CR
Master Program 2,149 CR
Ph.D. / Doctoral 2,850 CR
Final tuition fees may vary based on specific department requirements, residency status, and selected elective courses. Please contact the admissions office for a detailed financial breakdown.

Free University of Berlin faculties and divisions

Explore the various academic institutes, schools, and campuses that make up Free University of Berlin.

Centre : Area Studies

Regional Studies

Centre : Complex Quantum Systems (DCCQS)

Physics

Centre : French Studies

French

Centre : Humanities

Arts and Humanities

Centre : Italian Studies

Italian

Centre : Modern Greece (CeMoG)

Central European Studies

Department/Division : Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy

Biology Chemistry Pharmacy

Department/Division : Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences Geology Meteorology

Department/Division : Economics

Business Administration Economics

Department/Division : Education and Psychology

Educational Sciences Primary Education Psychology Sports

Department/Division : History and Cultural Studies

History Philosophy Social Sciences

Department/Division : Law

Law

Department/Division : Mathematics and Computer Science

Mathematics and Computer Science

Department/Division : Philosophy and Humanities

Film German Music Philosophy Theatre

Department/Division : Physics

Physics

Department/Division : Political and Social Sciences

Advertising and Publicity Communication Studies Ethnology Political Sciences Sociology

Department/Division : Veterinary Science

Veterinary Science

Faculty : Medicine

Medicine

Graduate School : Literary Studies

Literature

Graduate School : Mathematics

Mathematics

Graduate School : Muslim Cultures and Societies

Islamic Studies

Graduate School : North American Studies

American Studies

Graduate School : Regenerative Therapies

Rehabilitation and Therapy

Institute : Eastern Europe Studies

Eastern European Studies

Institute : Latin American Studies

Latin American Studies

Institute : North American Studies

American Studies

Research Division : Languages of Emotion

Arts and Humanities

Programs and Degrees

The table below displays academic fields with programs and courses that lead to Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees offered by Free University of Berlin.

Programs Bachelor Master Doctoral
Art & Design Yes Yes Yes
Biology Yes Yes Yes
Business Yes Yes Yes
Chemistry Yes Yes Yes
Computer Science Yes Yes Yes
Economics Yes Yes Yes
Engineering Yes Yes Yes
Environmental Science Yes Yes Yes
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Yes Yes Yes
Mathematics Yes Yes Yes
Medicine Yes Yes Yes
Physics Yes Yes Yes
Psychology Yes Yes Yes

Bachelor's Degree

Advertising and Publicity American Studies Ancient Civilizations Anthropology Archaeology Art History Asian Studies Biochemistry Biology Business Administration Catalan Chemistry Computer Education Computer Science Contemporary History Cultural Studies Dentistry East Asian Studies Economics Educational Sciences Film French Geography Geology German Greek Greek (Classical) Health Sciences Hebrew History Humanities and Social Science Education Italian Japanese Jewish Studies Korean Latin Latin American Studies Law Literature Management Mass Communication Mathematics Mathematics Education Media Studies Medicine Meteorology Modern Languages Oriental Studies Pharmacology Philology Philosophy Physics Political Sciences Portuguese Prehistory Primary Education Psychology Religious Studies Science Education Social Sciences Spanish Special Education Theatre Veterinary Science

Master

Accountancy Administrative Law American Studies Ancient Civilizations Anthropology Arabic Archaeology Art History Art Management Biochemistry Biology Business Administration Business Computing Chemistry Child Care and Development Classical Languages Clinical Psychology Cognitive Sciences Commercial Law Comparative Literature Computer Education Computer Science Contemporary History Dance Dutch Earth Sciences East Asian Studies Eastern European Studies Ecology Economics Educational Sciences English English Studies Environmental Management Environmental Studies European Languages European Studies European Union Law Film Finance Foreign Languages Education Gender Studies Geography Geology German Germanic Studies Greek History Humanities and Social Science Education Industrial and Organizational Psychology International Business International Relations and Diplomacy Islamic Studies Japanese Jewish Studies Korean Latin American Studies Law Literature Management Marketing Mass Communication Mathematics Mathematics Education Media Studies Medieval Studies Meteorology Modern History Musicology Native Language Education Neurosciences Persian Philosophy Physics Political Sciences Prehistory Preschool Education Primary Education Psychology Public Health Publishing and Book Trade Religion Religious Education Romance Languages Science Education Social and Preventive Medicine Social Sciences Sociology Taxation Theatre Turkish Veterinary Science

PhD

African Studies American Studies Ancient Civilizations Ancient Languages Anthropology Applied Mathematics Arabic Archaeology Art History Arts and Humanities Asian Studies Biochemistry Biology Biomedicine Botany Business Administration Business Computing Cardiology Catholic Theology Cell Biology Chemistry Comparative Literature Computer Science Crystallography Cultural Studies Dentistry Dutch Earth Sciences East Asian Studies Ecology Econometrics Economics Education Educational Sciences Engineering English Ethics Ethnology Film Finance Genetics Geography (Human) Geophysics German Greek (Classical) Health Sciences History Immunology International Relations and Diplomacy Islamic Studies Islamic Theology Japanese Jewish Studies Latin Latin American Studies Law Linguistics Literature Management Marketing Materials Engineering Mathematics Mathematics and Computer Science Medicine Meteorology Middle Eastern Studies Molecular Biology Musicology Neurology Neurosciences Oncology Oriental Languages Oriental Studies Paediatrics Persian Pharmacology Pharmacy Philosophy Physics Plant Pathology Political Sciences Prehistory Protestant Theology Psychiatry and Mental Health Psychology Regional Studies Religion Religious Studies Romance Languages Social Sciences Sociology Solid State Physics South and Southeast Asian Languages South Asian Studies Southeast Asian Studies Statistics Surveying and Mapping Theatre Turkish Veterinary Science

Habilitation

Arts and Humanities Biology Chemistry Cultural Studies Earth Sciences Economics History Law Mathematics and Computer Science Medicine Pharmacy Philosophy Physics Political Sciences Social Sciences Veterinary Science

Research profile

Free University of Berlin is a world-class research university with 129,116 scientific papers published and 3,413,269 citations received. The research profile covers a range of fields, including Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Physics, Engineering, Environmental Science, Genetics, Biochemistry, and Computer Science.

Publication / Citation count by topic

Biology
73,188 / 2,493,430
Chemistry
60,718 / 2,097,503
Medicine
56,088 / 1,682,457
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
47,286 / 1,019,904
Physics
47,025 / 1,494,780
Engineering
44,569 / 1,405,887
Environmental Science
40,764 / 1,282,329
Genetics
38,809 / 1,398,099
Biochemistry
38,697 / 1,443,183
Computer Science
36,308 / 1,163,929
Quantum and Particle physics
31,189 / 1,021,363
Organic chemistry
30,968 / 1,114,831
Philosophy
27,795 / 516,695
Psychology
26,254 / 880,125
Geology
23,778 / 832,923
Materials Science
22,973 / 764,501
Political Science
21,324 / 399,815
Pathology
21,182 / 709,828
Geography and Cartography
19,493 / 528,824
Paleontology
17,847 / 639,289
Ecology
16,585 / 590,822
Law
15,509 / 359,503
Psychiatry
14,676 / 539,368
Mathematics
14,660 / 423,562
Sociology
14,472 / 378,086
History
13,965 / 320,606
Immunology
13,911 / 499,914
Neuroscience
13,107 / 472,284
Optics
12,871 / 394,471
Surgery
12,603 / 338,195
Statistics
11,774 / 348,482
Archaeology
11,544 / 295,854
Linguistics
10,882 / 277,392
Business
10,664 / 302,570
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
10,285 / 299,199
Botany
9,365 / 368,308
Economics
9,340 / 236,520
Radiology
9,130 / 248,158
Metallurgy
9,115 / 286,897
Astrophysics and Astronomy
8,231 / 252,590

Annual publication & citation counts

Academic rankings

100 Notable alumni

Hermann-Josef Tenhagen

1. Hermann-Josef Tenhagen

1963-. (aged 63)
journalist
Hermann-Josef Tenhagen is the editor-in-chief and CEO of Finanztip since 2014, Finanztip is a non-for-profit financial information website for consumers, used c. 5 million times a month, running a weekly newsletter with a circulation of more than 1.000.000 and a popular YouTube channel. Finanztip is owned by the non-for-profit Finanztip foundation.
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Oskar of Prussia

2. Oskar of Prussia

1959-. (aged 67)
aristocrat
Oskar Michael Hans Karl Prinz von Preussen is a member of the House of Hohenzollern, the former ruling house of Germany.
Andrea Fischer

3. Andrea Fischer

1960-. (aged 66)
television presenter politician environmentalist journalist economist
Andrea Fischer is a former member of the German Bundestag for the German Green Party and from 1998 until 2001 was Federal Minister for Health. She dropped out of the Bundestag in 2002.
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Andreas Umland

4. Andreas Umland

1967-. (aged 59)
political scientist translator university teacher historian of Eastern Europe opinion journalist
Andreas Umland is a German political scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions. He has published on the post-Soviet extreme right, municipal decentralization, European fascism, post-communist higher education, East European geopolitics, Ukrainian and Russian nationalism, the Donbas and Crimea conflicts, as well as the neighborhood and enlargement policies of the European Union. He is a...
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General Info & Contacts

Alternative names FUBFreie Universität Berlin
Founded 1948
Motto Veritas, Iustitia, Libertas
Colors green blue
Academic calendar October to July (October - February; April-July)
Address Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18 Berlin, 14195 Germany
City Population 3,782,000
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