The importance of the university decreased during the time of the Counter-Reformation. More than 7,000 professors and lecturers and many other employees put in their effort every day – and experience that family friendliness, equal opportunity, and environmental protection are more than just empty phrases here. Ten Nobel Prize Winners for Physiology or Medicine are associated with the Faculty of Medicine, among them Róbert Bárány, Paul Ehrlich, Georges Köhler, Hans Adolf Krebs, Hans Spemann, and Harald zur Hausen. [1][2] Institutes and buildings are located at the Medical Center campus in Freiburg's Stühlinger district and in the Institute Quarter in the Neuburg district. When Ulrich Zasius was teaching law (until 1536), Freiburg became a centre of humanist jurisprudence. Numerous former students as well as benefactors and sponsors intensify a culture of dynamic exchange with the city, the region, and the international scientific community. Schiewer has assumed the position of rector with the start of the winter term 2008/2009. After World War I, the philosophers Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger (since 1928) taught at Albert Ludwigs University, as well as Edith Stein. [26][27][28] In regards to the natural sciences, the University of Freiburg ranked sixth in Europe and second in Germany[29] in a ranking from 2003 of the European Commission of the universities according to their overall impact on scientific research. At the time, German universities were leading in the sciences, attracting talent from across the globe. QS World University Rankings ranked Freiburg 87th worldwide in Life Sciences & Biomedicine in their 2009 edition. In the postwar years, the ideas of ordoliberalism, developed earlier by economists of the Freiburg School, such as Walter Eucken, Franz Böhm, Hans Grossmann-Doerth, and Leonhard Miksch, drove the creation of the German social market economy and its attendant Wirtschaftswunder. The seal of the University of Freiburg depicts the educator Christ seated on a gothic throne holding the gospel in his right hand with the temple curtain in the background. [13] There are numerous student organizations, most of which are coordinated through the student association (Fachschaft). The university also supports the Institute for Russian-German Literature and Cultural Relations at the Russian State University for the Humanities as well as the Vladimir Admoni School for Doctoral Studies at the University of Latvia. Interdisciplinary Health Promotion (Continuing Education Program), International Literary Studies: German-Russian Transfers, International Taxation (Continuing Education Program), Magister Theologiae – 1 field degree program, Medical Technology (Continuing Education Program), Medieval Latin Philology, Editorial Theory and Codicology, Microsystems Engineering (taught in English), Palliative Care (Continuing Education Program), Periodontics (Continuing Education Program), Periodontology and Implant Therapy (continuing education program), Photovoltaics (Continuing Education Program), Physicotechnical Medicine (Continuing Education Program), Psychology: Clinical Psychology, Neurosciences and Rehabilitation Sciences, Psychology: Cognitive Psychology, Learning and Work, Renewable Energy Engineering and Management, Russia Studies – Literature, History, and German–Russian Cultural Contact, Scandinavian Literary and Cultural History, Solar Energy Engineering (Continuing Education Program), Sports Science – Applied Human Movement Studies, Sports Science – Human Movement Science and Health, Sports Science – Physical Activity and Health. One of the notable graduate opportunities is the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, a project funded by the German Excellence Initiative. As Important Yesterday as Tomorrow: Intelligent Minds. Together with the EUCOR universities of Basel and Strasbourg and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of Freiburg also runs the shared graduate school École supérieure de biotechnologie Strasbourg, enabling the students to obtain an international degree in biotechnology and a trilingual education, as classes are taught in English, German, and French. However, shortly after the start of his term, the Social Democratic Party of Germany nominated Voßkuhle as vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. After Freiburg was re-conquered and appointed as capital of Further Austria, a new time began for the university by the reforms of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. The University of Freiburg, with its plans for future innovative teaching concepts, was selected as one of 10 winners from a field of over 100 higher education institutions. To counter reformatory tendencies, the administration of two faculties was handed over to the Roman Catholic order of the Jesuits in 1620. Center for Transplantation Medicine). The University of Freiburg currently has a semester fee of 155 EUR for all undergraduate and most graduate and doctoral programs, regardless of the EU or non-EU citizenship of students. ... service.uni-freiburg.de Sedanstraße 6 79098 Freiburg Map Accessibility Stairlift up to 225 kg.