University of Regensburg

Universität Regensburg, founded in 1962, is located on a modern campus at the southern edge of a historic city dating back to the Roman Ages. The university provides a broad variety of disciplines, a favourable student-teacher ratio and excellent facilities.

Originally designed as a regional university, it has developed into a renowned centre of teaching and research with a strong tradition in international cooperation. There are currently 19.704 students enrolled at Universität Regensburg (as of summer semester 2020).

Research at UR

Universität Regensburg is an internationally competitive university with a strong commitment to high-quality multidisciplinary research.

Major research priorities are:

• Chemical Photocatalysis
• Computational Science / High Performance Computing
• Immune Regulation and Tumor Diseases
• Nanoscience
• Real Estate and Capital Markets
• RNA Biology
• Transnational Area Studies

lnternationally renowned fields of research have been developed in the natural sciences, life sciences, and humanities. UR's status as a successful research university is manifest in important research centers, research training groups, and research units in the natural sciences, life sciences, and humanities funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Institute for East and Southeast Europ ean Studies (IOS) was awarded the stat s of Leibniz Institute in 2017.