Germany's 9 universities of Excellence are included in the WorldҀs Top-500 universities.

An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com reveals that 8 of Germany's 9 universities of Excellence are included in the WorldҀs Top-500 universities. AllAboutUni.com is an independent, global and inter-active website where visitors can obtain information about universities (global rankings, Education, higher education, university, college, Europe, Germany, Top 500 Universities, German Universities, Education news, University News and campus pictures). It publishes regular reports on universities around the world.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and the German Research Foundation launched an Excellence Initiative to promote research in Germany and to enhance the international visibility of German universities. As part of this initiative, nine universities of Excellence were selected: the Free University of Berlin, the Ludgwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Rheinisch-Westf䀀lische Technische Hochschule Aachen, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Constance, the Unviersity of Freiburg, the University of G怀ttingen, the University of Heidelberg and the Unversity of Karlsruhe.

German universities (a total of 40 universities) are well represented in the WorldҀs Top-500 universities compared to most other European countries. However, compared to the US (159 universities) and the United Kingdom (42 universities) it performs poorly, especially in the WorldҀs Top-25 universities.

Of the nine universities of Excellence, five are in the World's Top-100 universities (Munich (55), Technical University of Munich (57), Heidelberg (67), G怀ttingen (90) and Freiburg (96)), two are in the World's Top-201-302 universities (Aachen and Karlsruhe) and one is in the World's Top-303-401 universities (Constance).

It is interesting to note that 6 of the 9 universities of Excellence are based in the southern States (L䀀nder) of Baden-W쀀rttemberg (4) and Bavaria (2). It is surprising to note that the University of Bonn ր a university ranked 99th in the WorldҀs Top-500 universities ր is not included in the nine universities of Excellence. Finally, the Free University of Berlin ր which is a university of Excellence ր is not included the WorldҀs (Top-500 Universities).