This page offers a variety of basic information about Saarland University and links to the external websites of the respective institutions.

Saarland University is the only university in this federal state. It is located in Homburg and in Saarbrücken and hosts ca 17,000 students.

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• Courses A - Z

• Official homepage of Saarland University
  

The International Office is responsible for foreign students and the university's international partnerships.

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• International Office
  

The student service at Saarland University is the contact point for prospective and enrolled students. It helps solving all questions related to studying in Homburg and Saarbrücken.

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• Student service at Saarland University
  

A faculty ("Fakultät") is a division within the university that contains one or several study subjects.

Student councils ("Fachschaften") are organizations for the representation of interests of students by students. One student council usually represents a single faculty or one subject.

The list below contains links to the faculties of Saarland University and the corresponding student councils.

Faculties:

• F1 Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaft (law and economics)
  
• F2 Medizin - Theoretische Medizin und Biowissenschaften (theoretical medicine and biosciences)
  
• F2 Medizin - Klinische Medizin (clinical medicine)
  
• F3 Philosophische Fakultät I: Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (history and civilisation studies)
  
• F4 Philosophische Fakultät I: Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften (languages, literature, and cultural studies)
  
• F5 Philosophische Fakultät III: Empirische Humanwissenschaften & Sportwissenschaftliches Institut (social and applied human sciences)
  
• F6 Naturwissenschaftlich-Tech. Fakultät I: Mathematik und Informatik (mathematics and computer sciences)
  
• F7 Naturwissenschaftlich-Tech. Fakultät II: Physik und Mechatronik (physics and mechatronics engineering)
  
• F8 Naturwissenschaftlich-Tech. Fakultät III: Chemie, Pharmazie, Bio- und Werkstoffwissenschaften (chemistry, pharmacy, bio- and materials sciences)
  

Student councils:

• Allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft  (general and comparative literature studies)
  
• Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft sowie Übersetzen und Dolmetschen (applied linguistics & translation and interpretation)
  
• Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen (English, American and Anglophonic Cultures studies)
  
• Biologie (biology)
  
• Biotechnologie (biotechnology)
  
• Computerlinguistik (computer linguistics)
  
• Chemie (chemistry)
  
• Deutsch als Fremdsprache (German as a foreign language)
  
• Erziehungswissenschaften (pedagogy)
  
• Geographie, E-mail: Fsv-geographie[at]mx.uni-saarland.de (geography)
  
• Germanistik (German studies)
  
• Geschichte (history)
  
• Historisch orientierte Kulturwissenschaften (historical culture studies)
  
• Informatikstudiengänge (computer sciences)
  
• Informationswissenschaft  (information technology)
  
• Ingenieurwissenschaft (engineering science)
  
• Jura, E-mail: info[at]fachschaft-jura.org (law)
  
• Klassische Archäologie, E-mail: fs-archaeologie[at]web.de (classical archaeology)
  
• Klassische Philologie (classica philology)
  
• Kunstgeschichte (art history) 
  
• Lehramt, E-mail: lehramtsaar[at]googlemail.com (teacher training)
  
• Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik (materials science and ~ engineering)
  
• Mathematik (mathematics)
  
• Medizin (medicine)
  
• Musikwissenschaft (musicology)
  
• Pharmazie (pharmacy)
  
• Philosophie (philosophy)
  
• Phonetik (phonetics)
  
• Physik und Mikro- und Nanostrukturen (physics, and micro and nano structures)
  
• Psychologie (psychology)
  
• Romanistik (Romance studies)
  
• Sportwissenschaft, E-mail: fsswi[at]stud.uni-saarland.de (sport)
  
• Studienkolleg, E-mail: fachschaft[at]stk.uni-sb.de
  
• Theologie (evangelisch) (protestant theology)
  
• Theologie (katholisch), E-mail: fachschaft.katholischetheologie[at]gmx.de (catholic theology)
  
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte (pre- and early history)
  
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften (economics)
  
• Zahnmedizin (dental medicine)
  

The University of the Saarland has several sites in Saarbrücken.

Related links:

• Area map of the university and list of facilities

• Directions

The canteens and cafeterias of Saarland University offer a varying and diverse range of dishes.

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• List of all cafés and canteens

• Canteen menu University of the Saarland
  

The "Studentenwerk" of Saarland University supports students in all issues related to their studies. It offers services for financial matters, social life, accommodation, culture, and food services.

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• Homepage Studentenwerk Saarland University
  

The student represenatives are defending the interests of students on the university level. They are the voice of the students in talks with the university administration or the public. In addition to political and social issues the representation deals with cultural matters.

The student representation at the University of the Saarland is the "Allgemeine Studierendenausschuss" (AStA).

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• AStA at Saarland University
  

The "Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek" offers literature and research advice.

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• Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek

Within the university the IT service is the first contact for questions about data processing and electronic communication. At Saarland University it is offered by the "IT - Servicezentrum".

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• "IT - Servicezentrum" at Saarland University

The university sport at Saarland University offers numerous sport activities for students such as dancing, tennis, flamenco or football.

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• University sport at Saarland University