LMU Munich

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The Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), also referred to as the University of Munich, is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria-Landshut, it is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operation. In 1800, the university was moved from Ingolstadt to Landshut by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria when the city was threatened by the French, before being transferred to its present-day location in Munich in 1826 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria. In 1802, the university was officially named Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität by King Maximilian I of Bavaria in honor of himself and Ludwig IX. LMU is currently the second-largest (and largest on-site) university in Germany in terms of student population. In the 2025/26 winter semester, the university had a total of 52,658 matriculated students. Of these, 7,451 were freshmen, while international students totaled 11,658 or approximately 22% of the student population. The university is organised in 18 faculties, with faculties in theology, law, business administration, economics, medicine, history and the arts, philosophy, psychology, languages and literatures, social sciences, mathematics, informatics, statistics, physics, chemistry, biology, geosciences. As for the operating budget, the university recorded in 2024

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