The fields of study at Trier University are divided into six faculties, whose individual administration is overseen by the dean’s office.
- Pedagogy (with the subfield Educational Studies for future teachers)
- Philosophy
- Psychology (with the subfield Psychobiology)
- Classical Philology (Latin and Greek)
- Computational Linguistics
- English Studies
- German Studies (with the subfields German as a Foreign Language, Yiddish Studies and Gender Studies)
- Japanology
- Media Studies
- Phonetics
- Romance Studies (French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Studies)
- Sinology (Chinese Studies)
- Slavic Studies
