Since 15th June 2012, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is ranked among the eleven “Excellence Universities” in Germany. To its current 38,000 students, originating from over 100 countries, the Humboldt-Universität offers a broad variety of studies, ranging from the humanities, social and cultural studies as well as natural and agricultural sciences to human medicine, the study of which is located at the Charité Hospital.

Humboldt-Universität’s institutions are to be found on three different campuses:

• Campus Mitte, historic site of the studies of the Humanities, situated in the area around the university’s main building, Unter den Linden 6
• Life Sciences Campus Nord in close proximity to the Charité
• Campus Adlershof for Mathematics and Natural Sciences, in the heart of the Science and Technology Park Berlin-Adlershof

The departments of Chemistry, Geography, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology are based in Adlershof. The Erwin Schrödinger Centre houses the natural sciences library as well as IT and media services, providing state-of-the-art services for teaching and research.

Modern optics, molecular systems, mathematical physics and computational sciences are main fields of developing scientific collaboration amongst the different institutes. The Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences IRIS Adlershof successfully connects Humboldt-Universität with non-university research institutions and high tech companies.