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.
Heilbronn
Baden-Württemberg · 13 programmes
A wine town on the Neckar where three universities share one campus.
Hof
Bavaria · 13 programmes
A small Upper Franconian city on the Saale, close to the Czech and Saxon borders, with a university of applied sciences that looks to India.
Aalen
Baden-Württemberg · 12 programmes
A Swabian town of about 68,000 at the foot of the Swabian Jura, with a Roman fort, an iron-ore mine to walk into and an engineering university that teaches in English.
Augsburg
Bavaria · 12 programmes
A 2,000-year-old Roman city of canals and Renaissance streets, with two universities and Munich close by.
Trier
Rhineland-Palatinate · 12 programmes
Germany's Roman city on the Moselle, with two universities, 15 km from the Luxembourg border.
Bielefeld
North Rhine-Westphalia · 11 programmes
A university city on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest, with one big campus under one roof and rooms cheaper than in most German cities.
Freising
Bavaria · 11 programmes
A small cathedral town on the Isar, north of Munich, with a green university hill for food, farming, brewing and the life sciences.
Mannheim
Baden-Württemberg · 11 programmes
A grid-plan city where the Rhine meets the Neckar, with a business-school university in a Baroque palace and half of its residents of immigrant descent.
Passau
Bavaria · 11 programmes
A small Bavarian university town close to Austria, where the Danube, the Inn and the Ilz meet.
Frankfurt (Oder)
Brandenburg · 10 programmes
A small university town on the Polish border, with a student body that is almost half international.
Oldenburg
Lower Saxony · 10 programmes
A flat, green university city in the north-west where almost half of all trips are made by bicycle.
Paderborn
North Rhine-Westphalia · 10 programmes
A compact university city in East Westphalia, built around a river that rises in the middle of town.
Braunschweig
Lower Saxony · 9 programmes
A medieval duke's city with Germany's oldest technical university and a research cluster around it.
Kamp-Lintfort
North Rhine-Westphalia · 9 programmes
A small Lower Rhine town on an old coal site, with a campus of Rhine-Waal University, a monastery garden and Düsseldorf's student housing office.
Neu-Ulm
Bavaria · 9 programmes
A Bavarian city on the Danube, one bridge from Ulm, with a campus built around a lake.
Rostock
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · 7 programmes
A Baltic port city with the oldest university in the Baltic region, a beach inside the city limits and ferries to Scandinavia.
Villingen-Schwenningen
Baden-Württemberg · 7 programmes
Two old towns on the edge of the Black Forest, joined in 1972, with a university campus in each.
Bamberg
Bavaria · 6 programmes
A UNESCO old town on a river, with one university and about 10,400 students in it.
Flensburg
Schleswig-Holstein · 6 programmes
A harbour town at the end of a fjord, two kilometres from Denmark, with one shared campus for two universities.
Weiden in der Oberpfalz
Bavaria · 6 programmes
A small Bavarian city near the Czech border, with a business and technology campus, an ice hockey arena and forest on its doorstep.
Emden
Lower Saxony · 5 programmes
A small harbour town at the western end of Germany, with a campus of about 3,500 students on its own canal.
Pforzheim
Baden-Württemberg · 5 programmes
The Gold City between Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, with a design school, an engineering school and a business school on one campus road.
Rosenheim
Bavaria · 5 programmes
A small Bavarian city on the Inn with a technical university, the Alps on the horizon and Munich, Salzburg and Innsbruck all within reach.
Cham
Bavaria · 4 programmes
A small Bavarian town on the Regen river, close to the Czech border, with a technology campus where almost everyone studies robotics, AI or mechatronics.