Editing University of Münster (section)

== Rankings ==
{{Infobox Germany university rankings
| QS = 384
| QS_N = 21
| QS_year = 2024
| QS_ref = <ref name="QS">{{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2024|title=QS World University Rankings 2024|access-date=16 July 2023|website=[[QS World University Rankings]]}}</ref>
| THE = =193
| THE_N = 19-21
| THE_year = 2024
| THE_ref = <ref name="THE">{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024/world-ranking|title=World University Rankings 2024|access-date=27 September 2023|website=[[Times Higher Education World University Rankings]]|date=27 September 2023 }}</ref>
| ARWU = 201-300
| ARWU_N = 10-19
| ARWU_year = 2023
| ARWU_ref = <ref name="ARWU">{{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2023|title=2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities|website=[[Academic Ranking of World Universities]]|access-date=15 August 2023}}</ref>
}}
As per the [[QS World University Rankings|QS World 2024]] edition, the university was ranked 384th globally and 21st nationally.<ref name="QS"/> In the [[Times Higher Education World University Rankings|THE World 2023]] rankings, the institution placed 193rd on a global scale and between 19th and 21st within its home country.<ref name="THE"/> The university was also evaluated in the [[Academic Ranking of World Universities|ARWU World 2023]], where it fell within the 201-300 range worldwide and within the top 10-19 nationally.<ref name="ARWU"/>

The University of Münster is member of the association German U15 e.V. which is a coalition of fifteen major research-intensive and leading medical universities in Germany with a full disciplinary spectrum, excluding any defining engineering sciences.

The Leiden university ranking, ranks Münster as the third best German university in the size-independent ranking. Strong faculties include mathematics, chemistry, medicine and business studies. According to the Shanghai university ranking, the University of Münster is the fourth best German university for chemistry (46th best university for chemistry worldwide).

Two Max-Planck-Prize and five Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Winner are currently professors at the faculty of mathematics.

Münster has been successful with three excellence clusters "Cells in Motion" (discontinued), "Religion and Politics" and "Mathematics Münster: Dynamics - Geometry - Structure" in the German excellence initiative.