Faculties The university consists of 18 faculties which oversee various departments and institutes. The official numbering of the faculties and the missing numbers 06 and 14 are the result of breakups and mergers of faculties in the past. The Faculty of Forestry Operations with number 06 has been integrated into the Technical University of Munich in 1999 and faculty number 14 has been merged with faculty number 13. 01 Faculty of Catholic Theology 02 Faculty of Protestant Theology 03 Faculty of Law 04 Faculty of Business Administration 05 Faculty of Economics 07 Faculty of Medicine 08 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine 09 Faculty for History and the Arts 10 Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion 11 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences 12 Faculty for the Study of Culture 13 Faculty for Languages and Literatures 15 Faculty of Social Sciences 16 Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics 17 Faculty of Physics 18 Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy 19 Faculty of Biology 20 Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Sciences Research centres In addition to its 18 faculties, the University of Munich also maintains numerous research centres involved in numerous cross-faculty and transdisciplinary projects to complement its various academic programmes. Some of these research centres were a result of cooperation between the university and renowned external partners from academia and industry; the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, for example, was established through a joint initiative between LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum, while the Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking resulted from the collaboration between the Parmenides Foundation and LMU Munich's Human Science Center. Some of the research centres which have been established include: Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSN) Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) Parmenides Center for the Study of Thinking Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Tuition and fees Universities in Bavaria do not charge tuition fees. Instead, a semester fee and a mandatory off-hours public transportation semester ticket (for the Munich Transport and Tariff Association, MVV) have to be paid. A full network pass is optionally available. This mixed model is the result of several years of negotiations to allow students to get an affordable semester ticket despite the high costs of regular tickets in Munich. The current package was accepted by an overwhelming majority