List of universities in Germany
This is a list of the universities in Germany, of which there are about seventy. The list also includes the 13 German "universities of technology" which have official and full university status, but which usually focus on education in the natural sciences rather than covering the whole spectrum of academic disciplines.However, the list does not cover the German Fachhochschulen (universities of applied sciences) and institutions that cover only certain disciplines such as business studies, fine arts, or engineering sciences. Those do not have all of the responsibilities and limitations of old universities and they can not award Doctorate Degrees on their own.
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Universities by years of existence
Some other formerly German universities, for instance the Charles University in Prague (now in the Czech Republic) are no longer on German soil. Also, some universities were established in the 14th or 15th centuries, but shut down for longer periods and later re-opened (e.g. the universities of Cologne, Erfurt, Ingolstadt, Mainz and Würzburg). These are not included in this list.
| University | Year of establishment | Students | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heidelberg University | 1386 | 26,500 | Heidelberg |
| Leipzig University | 1409 | 29,500 | Leipzig |
| University of Rostock | 1419 | 14,000 | Rostock |
| University of Greifswald | 1456 | 12,000 | Greifswald |
| University of Freiburg | 1457 | 20,500 | Freiburg |
| University of Munich | 1472 | 44,000 | Munich[1] |
| University of Tübingen | 1477 | 23,500 | Tübingen |
| University of Halle-Wittenberg | 1502 | 18,500 | Halle[2] |
| University of Marburg | 1527 | 24,000 | Marburg |
| University of Jena | 1558 | 22,000 | Jena |
Universities alphabetically
A-D
- University of Augsburg
- University of Bamberg
- University of Bayreuth
- Free University of Berlin
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- University of Bielefeld
- Ruhr University Bochum
- University of Bonn
- University of Bremen
- Jacobs University Bremen
- University of Cologne
- University of Duisburg-Essen
- University of Düsseldorf
E-H
- Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- University of Erfurt
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- University of Duisburg-Essen (Campus Essen)
- University of Flensburg
- University of Frankfurt am Main
- Viadrina University (Frankfurt an der Oder)
- Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen)
- University of Freiburg
- University of Giessen
- University of Göttingen
- University of Greifswald
- Fernuniversität Hagen (distance learning; open university)
- University of Halle-Wittenberg (also in Wittenberg)
- University of Hamburg
- Helmut Schmidt University (University of the Bundeswehr, Hamburg)
- University of Hannover
- University of Heidelberg
- University of Hildesheim
- University of Hohenheim
I-N
- Technical University of Ilmenau
- University of Jena
- Kaiserslautern University of Technology
- University of Karlsruhe
- University of Kassel
- University of Kiel
- University of Koblenz-Landau
- University of Konstanz
- University of Leipzig
- University of Lübeck
- Leuphana
- University of Magdeburg
- University of Mainz
- University of Mannheim
- University of Marburg
- Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
- Bundeswehr University Munich
- University of Münster
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
O-Z
- University of Oldenburg
- University of Osnabrück
- University of Passau
- University of Paderborn
- University of Potsdam
- University of Regensburg
- University of Rostock
- Saarland University
- University of Siegen
- German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
- University of Stuttgart
- University of Trier
- University of Tübingen
- University of Ulm
- University of Halle-Wittenberg (also in Halle)
- University of Vechta
- University of Weimar
- Witten/Herdecke University
- University of Wuppertal
- University of Würzburg
