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With nearly 37,000 students, the Free University of Berlin, which was founded in 1948, ranks among the biggest universities in Germany. With its award-winning strategy for the future, the “International Network University“, the University also belongs to the circle of “elite universities“. Across 15 deparments, the Free University of Berlin offers round about 150 study programs in the fields of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, economic sciences, law, as well as human and veterinary medicine. Included in the range of study offers are 26 English-language programs, as well as joint (in part double degree) programs with national and international universities. A special characteristic of the University’s range of studies is a variety of “small“ subjects with a high degree of specialization such as theater and film studies, bioinformatics, egyptology, Arabic studies, Byzantine studies, Jewish studies, Indology, Iranian studies, ethnology, general and comparative literature. Apart from that, the Free University of Berlin is the only university in the Berlin-Brandenburg region to offer the subjects Catholic theology, Turkish studies, religious studies, veterinary medicine, journalism and communication studies, biochemistry, and meteorology. The Free University of Berlin is entitled to confer degrees at both doctoral and post-doctoral levels.