Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Standort Heidelberg
Seminarstraße 2
69117 Heidelberg
Phone: +49 6221 54-0

http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/index_e.html

General remarks

This University is also featured in the U-Multirank world university rankings.

Basic information

Kind of Institution and funding body	University, public
Year of foundation	1386
Total number of Students	28,281
Students at this campus	26,469
Semester contribution	169,25 € *
Tuition fees	There are no study fees.

Subject areas featured in the ranking

Further university sites
Mannheim

Students by area of study

Medicine, Health Science		15.1 %
Natural Sciences, Mathematics		26.2 %
Law, Economic and Social Sciences		22.6 %
Humanities, Languages		29.2 %
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)		3.1 %
Other studies		3.8 %

Students by type of degree pursued

Bachelor's degree		44.3 %
Master's degree		21.1 %
Teacher qualification degree		6.1 %
Pre-Bologna degrees		25.4 %
Other types of degrees		3.0 %

Central services

Opening hours central student counselling

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Special features regarding the library

Library system with 39 libraries and university library as management centre; Total inventory 6.2 million media, 6,500 running print magazines, 138,000 e-journals, 3,500 databases, 633,000 e-books; Publication services / publisher with 143,000 open access documents; university library inventory of 3.2 million media, including 980,000 volumes of old inventory -1900, 6,890 manuscripts, 1,806 incunabula; 2.3 million visitors, 46,000 active users, 1.1 million loans, 21.4 million accesses to the e-library per year; Opening hours 8:30 a.m.-1a.m.; digitalisation centre DFG specialist information services Antiquity, Art, Asia; 17 ongoing third-party funded projects. more information

Foreign language courses

There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, Swedish, Czech. more information

Special features regarding university sports

The university offers its own sports programme. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. Heidelberg University students can take part in the sports program at the University of Mannheim and the University of Teacher Education in Heidelberg. The university sports at Heidelberg University offer comprehensive and differentiated opportunities to take up, develop and develop a healthy, active lifestyle. With a wide range of offers (fitness and health sports, sports games, dance and relaxation, outdoor sports and much more), we want to reach the interests of as many students (and staff) as possible at different levels of ability and performance. The program is also open to students of Heidelberg University of Education and the University of Mannheim. more information