High practical and business orientation; engineering orientation; focus on complex, scalable IT systems; special admission procedures; intensive degree preparation, support and supervision; very good student-teacher ratio and personal contact between lecturers and students; high proportion of teamwork accompanying courses; 2-semester Bachelor's project; Master's project; extensive range of courses for professional skills and entrepreneurship; additional studies at HPI School of Design Thinking; constantly growing range of courses; extensive e-learning offer; scholarships.

University of Jyväskylä, Finnland; Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italien; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Blekinge Institut of Technology, Schweden; University of Tartu, Estland; University of Coimbra, Portugal; EFREI (Ecole Française d'Electronique et d'Informatique), Frankreich; Telecom ParisTech, Frankreich; Türk-Alman University, Türkei

State-of-the-art hardware and software equipment - replacement every 2 years; approx. 2 students per PC workstation; 2 graphics pool rooms; central versioning system for students; high-end research lab (highlights: High-RAM multicore machines with 1.5/2 TiB RAM, 1,000-core cluster, GPU power with 40,960 cores and 1,000 terraflops, 400 TiB HDD storage, in-memory computing SAP HANA); additional computing capacity through virtual servers; multi-display lab: Multitoe (interactive floor), 3D printer, 3D scanner, laser cutter; e-learning portal; from 2021: own data centre.

HPI Research Schools "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" and "Data Science and Engineering" with branch offices in China, USA, South Africa and Israel; HPI for Digital Health at Mt. Sinai in NYC; HPI office in NYC for scientific exchange; Design Thinking Research Program with Stanford University; 125 research projects with 70 third-party funders in 2019; top research lab Future SOC Lab; state-of-the-art hardware and software equipment; approx. 15 scientific conferences and 10-15 research colloquia per year to which students are also invited; own publication series

In the meantime, 150+ start-ups have spun off from HPI. At the HPI School of Entrepreneurship and the Department of IT Entrepreneurship, we support our students with a comprehensive range of courses, individual coaching and consulting, workshops, Founders Toolkit, Coworking Space, Startup Bootcamp, HPI Business Plan Competition, pre-seed financing, research work with nat./int. universities/companies; comprehensive professional skills training; business model/product idea development in Design Thinking add-on course; start-up talks; career portal "HPI Connect"; access to MediaTech Hub Accelerator.

No tuition fee; HPI scholarship programme; extensive Design Thinking offerings; approx. 25,000 sqm for teaching, learning and research; 21 student clubs; HPI student academy; HPI digital blog; own alumni programme; own sports fields; executive education at HPI Academy; free course offerings on MOOC education platform openHPI.de; yearly 150+ HPI events with top-class nat. Experts; communication zones; seminar rooms with media technology and PCs that can be used freely by students; promotion of women in IT (scholarships, "Women in Tech" talks, networking/career, FQ lounge).