Academic ranking

With its highly international campus, impressive levels of international student mobility, both out-bound and in-bound, and its high proportion of international students and staff, Saarland University regularly achieves impressive results in Germany's CHE University Ranking, CHE's international U-Multirank survey and in the International Student Barometer. Saarland University offers a wide range of international Bachelor's and Master's degrees in cooperation with partners from across Europe, as well as advanced professional study programmes with a distinct international focus.

According to the German Research Foundation's Funding Atlas, Saarland University is one of the most active universities in Germany in terms of acquiring external research funding. The Saarbrücken campus is home to an unusually high number of scientific institutions, affiliated institutes (including MPI, HIPS, INM) and research centres, creating close ties between teaching and research and fostering cooperation with partners from industry and business. Saarland University regularly ranks highly in international ranking tables, such as the QS World University Ranking, thanks to the strength of its research publication record.  

Saarland University is also a highly successful business incubator. The wide range of innovative support services in the areas knowledge and technology transfer and entrepreneurship have yielded an impressive track record of patents and publications with partners in the private sector. As a result, Saarland University scores particularly highly in terms of alumni start-ups (see, for example, the CHE's international U-Multirank survey). 

Students at Saarland University are very satisfied with the support services available to them in the early stages of their studies (CHE University Ranking). According to the CHE's international U-Multirank survey, students and teaching staff express a high level of satisfaction with the IT infrastructure used for digital and online teaching activities. Saarland University also scores highly in terms of the student-teacher ratio in its Master's degree programmes.