Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, also known as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the German cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers courses in both German and English that lead to academic degrees such as BA, BSc, MA, MSc, doctoral degrees, and Habilitation. MLU’s academic profile in the field of the humanities is shaped by the core research areas “Enlightenment – Religion – Knowledge” and “Society and Culture in Motion through Diffusion - Experiment - Institution”. The core scientific research areas at the university are "Materials Science - Nanostructured Materials" and "Biosciences - Structures and Mechanisms of Biological Information Processing." Agricultural sciences also play an important role, and Halle's university is solely responsible for developing this academic profile in Saxony-Anhalt. The Faculty of Medicine specializes in epidemiology, health and nursing research, and signal transmission research. Nursing scientists conduct research alongside physicians in this setting. The Dorothea Erxleben Learning Centre is one of the largest teaching clinics for aspiring doctors. Education and research with a 500-year-old tradition: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) offers a wide range of academic subjects in the areas of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and medicine. At MLU, more than 350 professors teach 20758 students across 257 degree programs with 8.5% distribution of international students. MLU collaborates closely with other universities, as well as external research institutes and industries, as a member of the Central German University Alliance Halle-Jena-Leipzig. They collaborate with businesses and major German research institutes like the Max Planck Society and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The university of Halle has an extensive global network of partner universities. MLU's botanical garden (1698) and historical observatory (1788) are included among the point of interest.