The German public research university University of Mannheim, also known as UMA, is located in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg.
The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate degrees in information systems, business administration, economics, law, social sciences, and humanities. The university's main campus is at the Mannheim Palace, and both campuses are in the heart of the city. The university includes 200 professors, 840 academic staff members, and about 12,000 full-time students. Its overall budget is 140 million euros. It is divided into two graduate colleges and five schools.
Numerous domestic and foreign partners work with university researchers. The university maintains close ties with the Institut für Deutsche Sprache, the GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, and the ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, three of Germany's top institutions for economic research (IDS). One of the top organizations of its sort internationally is the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), the largest research center for social sciences at a German university.
Mannheim is a tolerant, multicultural city with many diverse aspects because it is home to people from more than 170 different countries.
There are five schools at the University of Mannheim:
• Business School (1963)
• School of Law and Economics (1963)
• School of Social Sciences (1963)
• School of Humanities (1963)
• School of Business Informatics and Mathematics (1967)
As well as two graduate colleges:
• Mannheim Business School (2005)
• Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (2007)