The University of Strasbourg is home to 43,000 students, of whom 20 percent are international. It is the second-largest university in France and boasts an impressive endowment of €430 million. Some 15 Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with the school.
More than 4,600 teachers and researchers staff the school, which has 79 research units, 32 libraries, 86 laboratories and research centers, and 110 buildings in all. Nearly 400 doctoral theses are submitted to the school annually.
Strasbourg is currently working in conjunction with the nearby universities of Basel, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, and Mulhouse in order to build a sophisticated Upper Rhine academic community. The university is exceptionally well situated to take on intercollegiate activities due to its location at the meeting point between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean countries.
Famous people associated with Strasbourg include the writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Maurice Blanchot, the statesman Klemens von Metternich, the philanthropist/musicologist/theologian Albert Schweitzer, the physicist Max von Laue, the chemist Jean-Marie Lehn, the art historian Aby Warburg, and the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.
