Philipp University of Marburg

Overview

Philipp University of Marburg

Philipp University of Marburg is a public university located in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. It was founded in 1527, making it one of the oldest universities in Germany that are still operating. The university is known for being the first to establish a professorship in chemistry. Philipp University of Marburg is also known for its course offerings such as biological sciences, psychology, and pharmacy and pharmacology.

Philipp University of Marburg Key Statistics

The university is currently composed of 16 faculties and departments. These academic units include the School of Medicine, the School of Business and Economics, and the Department of Foreign Language Cultures.

There are also about 75 undergraduate and 88 graduate programs being offered by the university. Philipp University of Marburg also offers short-term programs during summer and winter that may last for four to six weeks, such as the German Language Winter Program and Summer School Accounting & Finance.

Philipp University of Marburg's student population is approximately 23,500. Of these, about 3,200 are international students. The university also employs around 7,500 employees.

Other Philipp University of Marburg key statistics include having different service facilities, including the university library and several other department libraries, the university computer center, and the Marburg University Research Academy. Additionally, the university has two botanical gardens and five museums housing different collections—from art to mineralogy.

Philipp University of Marburg Research

The university is known to participate in various collaborative research centers or SFBs (Sonderforschungsbereiche), partnering with different universities, and institutions. Its research funding mostly comes from the German Science Foundation (FDG). One of this university’s completed research projects is a collaboration with Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg entitled, “Ras-dependent Pathways in Human Cancer” from 2004-2013.

Its top fields of research are medicine, biology, and chemistry. Its research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like Angewandte Chemie, Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, and The Lancet. Moreover, its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences, such as WebSci: Web Science, SIGMOD: International Conference on Management of Data, and ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning.

The most cited Philipp University of Marburg research publication is Vestbo et al.’s (2007) “Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: GOLD executive summary,” published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine with 14,328 citations. Second to this is the research done by Kleinstäuber et al. (2014), “Pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders in adults,” published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews with 9,106 citations to date. Meanwhile, the university’s third most cited publication that has garnered 6,978 citations so far, is the publication of Bathelt et al. (2004) “Clusters and knowledge: Local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation,” published in the journal of Progress in Human Geography.

Philipp University of Marburg research focuses on various topics, such as security, order, conflict, language dynamics, and neurosciences. Its research centers include the Center for Conflict Studies, Material Sciences Center, and Center for Imaging Processes, among others. The university houses a total of 16 research centers. It has also one of the few research centers with dedicated studies on the Middle East, the Center For Near and Middle Eastern Studies.