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.
Göttingen
Lower Saxony · 30 programmes
A small university town where the university is the town, and the old centre fits inside a ring of grassy ramparts.
Lüneburg
Lower Saxony · 27 programmes
A small salt-trade town on the Ilmenau, with one university, a heath on the doorstep and Hamburg 50 km away.
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.
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.
Oldenburg
Lower Saxony · 10 programmes
A flat, green university city in the north-west where almost half of all trips are made by bicycle.
Braunschweig
Lower Saxony · 9 programmes
A medieval duke's city with Germany's oldest technical university and a research cluster around it.
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.
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.