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.
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.
Köthen (Anhalt)
Saxony-Anhalt · 6 programmes
A small Bach town with a campus of its own: dorm rooms from about 250 euros, a lunch from 1.95 euros, and Halle half an hour away.
Lübeck
Schleswig-Holstein · 6 programmes
A Hanseatic old town on an island, the Baltic beach at Travemünde, and a small university built around medicine.
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.
Eberswalde
Brandenburg · 5 programmes
A forestry town 38 minutes from Berlin, where the university sits at the edge of the woods.
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.
Erfurt
Thuringia · 5 programmes
A medieval old town, a student-sized campus and a main station that connects you to the rest of Germany.
Idstein
Hesse · 5 programmes
A half-timbered Taunus town with one private university in its centre, chemistry and biology labs in a 19th-century building, and Frankfurt and Wiesbaden on the same rail line.
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.
Riedlingen
Baden-Württemberg · 5 programmes
A walled-in market town of about 11,000 on the upper Danube, and the home base of a distance-learning university.
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.
Friedberg (Hessen)
Hesse · 4 programmes
A small imperial town with a castle, a campus five minutes from the station, and Frankfurt on the S-Bahn.
Ansbach
Bavaria · 3 programmes
A small Franconian residence town with one university of applied sciences, a Baroque palace and Nuremberg on the S-Bahn.
Hildesheim
Lower Saxony · 3 programmes
A small, walkable cathedral city south of Hanover, with a university built around teacher training, culture and data, and a university of applied sciences for design, building and social work.
Reutlingen
Baden-Württemberg · 3 programmes
A mid-sized Swabian city at the foot of the Swabian Alb, with a university of applied sciences of its own and Tübingen and Stuttgart on the same rail line.
Worms
Rhineland-Palatinate · 3 programmes
A small Rhine city with a thousand-year-old synagogue, a Romanesque cathedral and one university of applied sciences where English-taught degrees sit next to wine country.
Essen
North Rhine-Westphalia · 2 programmes
A former coal-and-steel capital that is now one of Germany's greenest big cities, in the middle of a metro region of about five million people.
Lippstadt
North Rhine-Westphalia · 2 programmes
A small Westphalian town on the Lippe with a compact engineering campus, a short walk from the station.
Bad Liebenzell
Baden-Württemberg · 1 programme
A spa town of about 9,200 people in the northern Black Forest, built around a mission and a Christian university.
Hamm
North Rhine-Westphalia · 1 programme
A calm Westphalian city on the Lippe, with Europe's largest Tamil Hindu temple, cheap rooms and the whole Ruhr area on one train line.
Wernigerode
Sachsen-Anhalt · 1 programme
A half-timbered town under the Brocken, with a small university of applied sciences and the Harz forest at the end of the street.