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.
Stuttgart
Baden-Württemberg · 41 programmes
A hilly valley city of about 609,000 people where the car, the engineering degree and the vineyard all sit within one tram ride.
Tübingen
Baden-Württemberg · 32 programmes
A small river town where about one in three residents is a student, with a university founded in 1477 and one of Germany's densest research clusters.
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.
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.
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.
Freiburg im Breisgau
Baden-Württemberg · 15 programmes
A university town at the edge of the Black Forest, a short ride from France and Switzerland.
Heilbronn
Baden-Württemberg · 13 programmes
A wine town on the Neckar where three universities share one campus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.