Student cities in Germany
Same country, very different lives. Each city page covers student life, real costs, every university and the community for your home country, with sources.
Heidelberg
Baden-Württemberg · 21 programmes
Germany's oldest university, on a river below a castle, with a fifth of its students from abroad and a dense ring of research institutes.
Regensburg
Bavaria · 21 programmes
A Roman camp turned medieval trading city on the Danube, with two large universities and about 32,000 students.
Karlsruhe
Baden-Württemberg · 20 programmes
A planned city built as a fan around a palace, with an Excellence University, the highest courts and a media-art centre.
Kiel
Schleswig-Holstein · 20 programmes
A university city on a Baltic fjord, with sailing, ferries to Scandinavia and the state's only comprehensive university.
Konstanz
Baden-Württemberg · 20 programmes
A university town on Lake Constance where the Swiss border runs between the streets
Ulm
Baden-Württemberg · 19 programmes
A mid-sized city on the Danube where the university sits on a hill, a short walk from lecture hall to laboratory to canteen.
Jena
Thuringia · 18 programmes
A valley city on the Saale with an optics industry, two universities and wooded hills in every direction.
Gießen
Hesse · 17 programmes
A university town on the Lahn where students are a huge share of the street.
Münster
North Rhine-Westphalia · 17 programmes
A bicycle city with a baroque palace for a university, a town hall where a war was ended, and one of the biggest student populations in Germany.
Cottbus
Brandenburg · 16 programmes
A technical university in Lower Lusatia, with a theatre, a park of pyramids, the Spreewald next door and a brand-new lake where the coal mine was.
Garching b. München
Bavaria · 16 programmes
A small town on the Isar where one of Europe's largest science and engineering campuses sits at the end of the U6 line.
Mainz
Rhineland-Palatinate · 16 programmes
Gutenberg's city on the Rhine: a compact university town with Roman ruins, carnival, wine and Frankfurt next door.
Nürnberg
Bavaria · 16 programmes
Bavaria's second city, a Franconian old town on the Pegnitz with a technical university being built from scratch.
Düsseldorf
North Rhine-Westphalia · 15 programmes
The state capital on the Rhine: one big public university, an art academy with a famous past, and a large international population.
Freiberg
Saxony · 15 programmes
A small silver-mining town in Saxony that is home to one of the oldest mining universities in the world.
Freiburg im Breisgau
Baden-Württemberg · 15 programmes
A university town at the edge of the Black Forest, a short ride from France and Switzerland.
Darmstadt
Hesse · 14 programmes
A compact science and engineering city south of Frankfurt, with a UNESCO art-nouveau hill, a space agency control room and a technical university where 28% of students are from abroad.
Kleve
North Rhine-Westphalia · 14 programmes
A small castle town on the Dutch border, where a modern campus sits on an old harbour and Nijmegen is a bike ride away.
Marburg
Hesse · 14 programmes
A university town on the Lahn where the town and the students are the same crowd.
Osnabrück
Lower Saxony · 14 programmes
A mid-sized university city of peace history, short train rides to Münster, Bielefeld and Bremen, and hills on its doorstep.
Siegen
North Rhine-Westphalia · 14 programmes
A hill-and-valley university town in the Siegerland, with a castle old town, forest on the doorstep and cheap rooms.
Chemnitz
Saxony · 13 programmes
A machine-building city in south-west Saxony with a technical university, cheap dorm rooms and a one-ticket-covers-all semester fee.
Fulda
Hesse · 13 programmes
A baroque cathedral city on the edge of the Rhön, with a university of applied sciences that counts over 3,100 international students.
Hannover
Lower Saxony · 13 programmes
The capital of Lower Saxony: a big university and medical city with a lake, a city forest and Baroque gardens inside the city limits.