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JMU Awards and Rankings

Awards and Prizes

Nobel Prize

A total of 14 Nobel Laureates have – at least temporarily – researched and taught at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.

ERC-Grants

The ERC Grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) are the most prestigious form of European research funding.

Leibniz Prize

    The German Research Foundation (DFG) awards the prizes every year to ten pre-eminent scientists.

Awards for Early Career Researchers

International Rankings

Academic rankings have repeatedly confirmed JMU’s strong national and international performance:

  • The internationally renowned Shanghai Ranking (2024) ranks the University of Würzburg among the three most research-intensive universities in Bavaria, the twelve best in Germany, and among the 300 best worldwide.