Approximately 29 % of the freshers come from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Roughly 37 percent of the new students come from former West Germany and slightly more than seven percent come from Berlin. 181 new enrolees are foreign nationals. The University of Greifswald currently has a total of 10,196 students. Approximately 800 of these come from a total of 96 countries.
Similar to previous years, both medicine and dentistry, but also courses in psychology and human biology, which all have admission restrictions, were particularly sought after. Law degrees, but also degree courses in business administration and political science were amongst the most popular courses with no admission restrictions. Students were able to select two new degree courses: the master’s degree course in Business Administration and the first international master’s double degree in ‘Language and Communication: International’.
‘We are currently developing a number of new international degree courses with which we aim to attract more international students. This is an area in which we still have a great deal of potential,’ says Rector Prof. Dr. Johanna Weber.
The prizes for excellent teaching shall be awarded at the opening ceremony. A jury selected the three prizewinners from a list of recommendations that had been submitted by the students. Prof. Dr. Cordelia Heß, Chair of Nordic History, shall receive the prize in the category ‘Internationalisation’. Prof. Dr. Roland Rosenstock, Chair of Practical Theology, Religious and Media Education, shall receive the teaching prize for ‘Knowledge and Technology Transfer’. The teaching prize in the category ‘Innovative Evaluation’ shall be awarded to Prof. Martin Wilmking, Chair of Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation.
Further Information
A photo from the opening ceremony in the Cathedral St. Nikolai shall be available for download from 14/10/2019 at around 5.00 p.m. The photo can be downloaded and used for free for editorial purposes in combination with this press release. The photographers must be named. Thumbnails of the prizewinners can also be found on our media photos page. High resolution images can be obtained from the Press and Media Relations Office.
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