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The old Assembly Hall is located today in the University of Marburg, which dates back to the 19th century
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Loved by Poets and Thinkers
Germany is known as the country of poets and thinkers-and many of them spent time in Marburg. Philipps-Universität Marburg was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philipp the Magnaminous and was the first Protestant university in all of Germany. It has produced a total of nine Nobel prize winners. One of them was Emil von Behring, inventor of serotherapy and in 1901, the first Nobel prize winner in medicine. On the literary side, Marburg even boasts its own literary term, "Marburg Romantic," closely associated with those legendary authors of fairy tales, the Brothers Grimm. Every German child knows their tales. Today Emil von Behring and the Brothers Grimm have lent their names to two science prizes that are awarded by the Philipps University.
Students from all over the World
Only a third of today's students at the university come from the central Hessen region. In Marburg, you'll meet young people from all over Germany and from 80 different countries. It's thanks to a number of strong faculties that Marburg can boast such variety. The liberal arts and linguistics departments offer students a broad range of majors and study combinations. In the economics department students from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia can enroll in the "cooperative economics" programme. Students are trained especially for future work as teachers or managers in their home countries.
The University\'s Particular Strengths: Law, Medicine and Psychology
Besides law and theology, medicine was one of the University of Marburg's original disciplines. Today, the University Clinic is one of the most modern and most expensive clinic buildings in Germany. Since the clinic is also the only hospital in the Marburg area, students here can gain valuable experience in both specialist and general fields.
One other distinctive feature is the university's school of psychology, since at Marburg psychology is counted as a scientific discipline. All together, the university's 21 faculties offer students more than 60 majors. And studying in Marburg also means staying on the move, since the university's different institutes are spread all over the city.
Orientation for International Students
About 10 percent of the approximately 18,000 students in Marburg come from abroad. The International Student Affairs Department offers students orientation two weeks before classes start. Newcomers are counseled by German and other foreign students and they receive German language instruction, which facilitates their integration into the university and the city. Students who need time to brush up on their German have 18 months before they have to take a language test.
Student dormitories mean the living can be cheap in Marburg and the university offers students their own village surrounded by green. Living somewhat outside the city can also be less expensive and bike paths and bus connections are good. An apartment in town will cost between 300 and 350 Euro a month.
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Hiromi Kodama from Japan studying Politics on her reasons for studying in Marburg:
'The atmosphere os the town and the local conditions are ideal for my studies.' (German)
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Katerina Otáhalová from the Czech Republic advises students to live in a hall of residence:
'It's like living in one big flat-share. You meet people from all over the world.' (German)
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