Since 1946, the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has been a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It is one of Germany's largest universities, with approximately 32,000 students spread across 100 schools and clinics. The university was reorganized into 11 faculties of study on January 1, 2005.
The university is a member of the German U15, a coalition of fifteen of Germany's most prestigious and research-intensive medical universities. The Johannes Gutenberg University is regarded as one of Germany's most prestigious institutions. The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017 and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017 place it among the top 300 universities in the world.
Almost all the institutions and facilities of the University of Mainz are housed on the site of a former barracks in the city's south-west. The university medical center, Mainz Academy of Arts (Kunsthochschule Mainz), as well as the Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Sciences, are located off campus in Germersheim. The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, the Institute of Molecular Biology, the electron accelerator MAMI, the research reactor TRIGA, the botanical garden, a sports stadium, and an indoor swimming pool are all located on the university's campus.
The range of studies is extensive; however, some technical studies, veterinary medicine, and nutrition science are not available at the university. Nonetheless, the history of books, athletics, music, visual arts, theater, and film can be studied. As of 2010, the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz had approximately 36,000 students and over 150 institutions and clinics. The award-winning choir EuropaChorAkademie, founded by Joshard Daus in 1997 in collaboration with the University of the Arts Bremen, is one of the university's international programs.