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	28,710
Students at this campus	26,980
Semester contribution	152,30 € *
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		14.2 %
Mathematics, Natural Sciences		26.1 %
Law, Economic and Social Sciences		22.4 %
Language, Civilisation Studies		30.5 %
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)		3.0 %
Other studies		3.9 %

Students by type of degree pursued

Bachelor's degree		43.3 %
Master's degree		20.6 %
Teacher qualification degree		7.7 %
Pre-Bologna degrees		25.3 %
Other types of degrees		3.2 %

Central services

Opening hours central student counselling

please see university website (link below) more information

Special features regarding the library

Library system with 41 libraries and university library (UB) as management centre; Total stock 6.2 million media, 6,800 current print journals, 121,000 e-journals, 3,400 databases, 604,000 e-books, publication services with 124,000 open access documents; Stock in the university library 3.2 million media of which 980,000 are old stock before the year 1900, 6,890 are manuscripts and 1,806 incunabula; 2.6 million visitors, 47,000 active users, 1.2 million loans and e-library accessed 18.1 million times per year; Opening hours 8:30-1:00; Digitalisation centre; DFG Fachinformationsdienste Antiquity, Art, Asia; 17 running third-party funded projects. more information

Foreign language courses

There is a foreign language centre. 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. Students attending the institution can participate in the sports programme of the University of Mannheim and Heidelberg University of Education (PH Heidelberg). The programme is open to: Students of Heidelberg University of Education (PH Heidelberg), University of Mannheim. In addition to the large range of health sports available ranging from aquafit to Tai Chi, courses in water sports are also offered on the Neckar. more information