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.
Aachen
North Rhine-Westphalia · 44 programmes
A technical-university city where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet, with Charlemagne's cathedral in the middle of the old town.
Cologne
North Rhine-Westphalia · 41 programmes
A million people on the Rhine, a cathedral you can see from the lecture hall, three public universities and a long list of specialist and private schools.
Bonn
North Rhine-Westphalia · 38 programmes
A calm Rhine city with a big research university, Beethoven's birthplace and the United Nations on campus, 24 km from Cologne.
Dortmund
North Rhine-Westphalia · 35 programmes
A Ruhr city that swapped coal and steel for logistics, software and research, with a lake, a football stadium and student rooms near campus
Bochum
North Rhine-Westphalia · 26 programmes
A university city that grew where the coal mines used to be, with one big campus, a pub district of 80 venues and a lake you can reach on the same tram ticket.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paderborn
North Rhine-Westphalia · 10 programmes
A compact university city in East Westphalia, built around a river that rises in the middle of town.
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.
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.
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.