The University of Bayreuth is one of the most successful young universities in Germany.

Interdisciplinary research and teaching is the main feature of our more than 186 degree programmes offered at seven faculties in the natural sciences, food sciences, engineering, law and economics, as well as language, literature and cultural studies. The University of Bayreuth has about 12,000 students, 1,639 academic staff (281 of them professors) and 1013 non-academic employees on the campus in Bayreuth and at satellite campus in Kulmbach.
(June 2024)