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The University of Greifswald is one of the oldest higher education institutions in Germany and the Baltic Sea Region. Founded in 1456, it is also the oldest Swedish university, as the region was ruled by the Swedes after the Thirty Years’ War and up until 1815. Today, the University of Greifswald is aware of its tradition and has become a modern University beside the Baltic Sea with approximately 220 professors and 10,500 students. Currently, the University has 717 international students from 99 countries, the proportion of university entrants from abroad has risen to 8 percent.

Research at the University covers a broad spectrum, with five key fields of research: Community Medicine and Individualized Medicine, Environmental Change: Responses and Adaptation, Cultures of the Baltic Sea Region, Plasma Physics, and Proteomics and Protein Technologies. Recently, the University has also been successful in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's Excellence Initiative.

Greifswald is known as a town with short distances, in which you will find intensive and personal relationships between teaching staff and students.

Studying conditions in Greifswald are excellent. Due to its geographical position in the Baltic Sea Region, cultural and academic contacts have grown historically, especially to partners in Poland, the Baltic States and to Scandinavia.

Current News from the University of Greifswald

20.10.2017

Award Ceremony for the Deutschlandstipendium Scholarships at the University of Greifswald

17.10.2017

Call for Entries to the DAAD Prize 2017

17.10.2017

Scholarships for Foreign Doctoral Students

More News

Do Your Master's Degree in Greifswald

Currently the University of Greifswald offers 2 master's degree courses taught in English: Earth Sciences and Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation

ERC Grant for Greifswald Biochemist

Junior Professor Dr. Matthias Höhne has received a 1.5 million euro ERC Starting Grant to fund his research into protein biochemistry.

Greifswald Life-savers Awarded Global Sepsis Award

The team around Dr. Matthias Gründling, MD at the Clinic for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine at University Medicine Greifswald, was awarded the Global Sepsis Award 2017. The quality improvement initiative 'Sepsisdialog' has set new standards for fighting sepsis - an illness that caused almost 80,000 deaths in Germany in 2013.

Greifswald Research Provides New Insights into Social Spider Behaviour

New research from Greifswald, which has recently been published in the international journal Animal Behaviour, shows that within communal nests occupied by the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola, the aunts sacrifice themselves for their nieces and nephews.

Boat Race on the Ryck, Uni Greifswald vs. PUM Szczecin

This year’s Boat Race took place on the river Ryck, in Greifswald's Museum Harbour. In the women's race, the boat from Szczecin was first to cross the finish line. The men's eight from the University of Greifswald took home gold. A well-balanced result! Thanks to all of the spectators for their support in spite of windy conditions.

Call for Entries: DAAD Prize 2017

If you are a permanent foreign student at the University of Greifswald, achieve excellent grades, take part in social activities and show public involvement in Greifswald, you can submit your application for the DAAD Prize 2017. The prize money amounts to € 1,000. Applicants should send their entries to the International Office by the 31/10/2017.