The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg is a public university located in Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt. MLU is a large comprehensive research university that combines the traditions of the University of Wittenberg and the University of Halle and is named for Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon’s reform legacy. Institutional development: 1502 – founded the University of Wittenberg. 1512 — Martin Luther enters the faculty of theology at Wittenberg. Its academic profile today includes humanities, theology, law, economics, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, agriculture, education and culture. The location matters, as Halle is a historic and relatively cheap university city close to Leipzig with major cultural institutions, life-science research, hospitals, schools, public bodies and regional industry.

This master file displays the course portfolio for 28 undergraduate entries and 27 postgraduate entries with subject combinations consolidated under their parent degrees where appropriate. Examples are Agricultural Sciences, Archaeology, Biochemistry, Biology, Business Economics, Chemistry, Sport Science, Theology, Teacher Education. Postgraduate study includes Agricultural Sciences, Anglo-American Literature, Language and Culture, Applied Geosciences, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Teacher Education. Each course remains a parent qualification and the specialisations are recorded on the course entry and are not masquerading as separate degrees. The university has about 230 study programs, many of which are combination subjects. This file aggregates the combinations to the parent degrees and keeps the major single-subject and professional routes.

Admission is managed at the program level. For the programs marked by MLU, international qualifications usually go via uni-assist. Winter deadlines are usually June 15 for international masters applications and July 15 for many other routes. Before applying applicants have to check teaching language, entry semester, subject prerequisites, selection procedure and document route. International school or university qualifications may have to be externally assessed, translated and certified and for some countries, accompanied by APS documentation and/or further evidence of academic equivalence. Master’s committees may require module descriptions, portfolios, writing samples, professional experience or interviews. Admission to doctoral studies differs from admission to bachelor's or master's programs and usually requires a valid research proposal, the availability of adequate supervision and a formal acceptance by the responsible faculty.

MLU charges no tuition fee for regular degree study. For the winter semester 2026/27 the contribution is €333.30 (€90 student services + €226.80 Germany semester ticket + €16.50 student-body contribution) These institutional fees do not include rent, health insurance, food, learning materials, residence formalities, project costs and personal travel. If provided for by the relevant law or program regulation, special tuition may be provided for continuing-education, distance-learning, joint, second-degree, or long-term study formats. Funding (e.g. BAföG for eligible students, Deutschlandstipendium, DAAD and Erasmus+ mobility support, foundations, research employment or university-specific awards) is available, but each funding application is evaluated separately from admission.

Career preparation reflects the university’s subject mix, but is not a guarantyd placement scheme. Halle’s networks in medicine, science, agriculture, culture, education, public administration, law, media and regional business support internships and graduate careers. Students may improve their professional readiness through internships, applied projects, research assistantships, employer events, language development, entrepreneurship services, international mobility, and an externally partnered thesis. MLU is the right choice for students looking for a full research university with strengths in the humanities, life sciences, medicine, agriculture and teacher education, in an affordable central German city.