a tuition fee of 1,500 Euro per semester according to state law. The University of Mannheim has a scholarship system of its own consisting of various types of scholarships serving different needs. Research institutes and affiliates GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences IDS – Institute of German Language IfM – Center for SME Research and Entrepreneurship IMU – Institute for Market-oriented Management InES – Institute for Enterprise Systems MaCCI – Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation MaTax – Leibniz ScienceCampus Mannheim Taxation MAZEM – Mannheim Center for Empirical Multilingual Research MCEI – Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation MZES – Mannheim Centre for European Social Research OSI – Otto-Selz-Institute of Applied Psychology ZEW — Centre for European Economic Research ZI – Central Institute of Mental Health Rankings and reputation The University of Mannheim was called "The Harvard of Germany" by the German newspaper Die Zeit. The 2015 QS World University Rankings ranked the UMA among the best one hundred universities within the disciplines of Social Sciences & Management, Accounting & Finance, Business Administration & Management and Economics & Econometrics, as well as among the Top 50 universities within the discipline of Political Sciences. Subject In the 2018 Times Higher Education subject rankings the University of Mannheim was internationally ranked 20th in Business and Economics, 31st in Social Sciences, 90th in Psychology, and 151–175 in Computer Science. Within Germany the university ranked first in both, Business and Economics, and Social Sciences. The university's programs for social sciences, politics as well as business informatics rank nationwide within the Top 3 and its programs for law and computer science within the Top 10. In 2008, the Business School was the first German institution to receive the "Triple Crown", that is accreditations by the world's three largest business school accreditation associations AMBA (UK), AACSB International (USA) und EQUIS (Belgium). In the German CHE University Ranking 2017/2018, the psychology as well as the romance languages department were ranked highest in Germany, receiving more top scores than any other institution of their discipline nationwide. The university's Master in Management is ranked 14th in Europe by the FT. The university's business school is ranked 1st in Germany by the Eduniversal ranking and 34th worldwide. Student life In the 2017/2018 academic year there were 12,000 full-time students, of which approximately 15% came from abroad (718 exchange students and 1,126 international full-time students). 110 nationalities are represented