Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (German: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. As of 2018, it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 academic programs. The university is organized into 11 faculties. The university is a member of the German U15, a group of fifteen major research and medical universities in Germany. It also participates in the IT-Cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar and forms part of the Rhine-Main-Universities (RMU) along with Goethe University Frankfurt and Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Type

Comprehensive university, Public university

Founded

1477

Students

33,132

Also known as

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, University of Mainz, Universität Mainz