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Basic information

Kind of Institution and funding body
University, public
Year of foundation
1810
Total number of Students
36,378
Students at this campus
36,378
Semester contribution
240.64 €
Tuition fees
There are no study fees.

Students by area of study

Medicine, Health Science
0%
Natural Sciences, Mathematics
16%
Law, Economic and Social Sciences
36%
Humanities, Languages
30.9%
Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)
4%
Other studies
13%

Students by type of degree pursued

Bachelor's degree
40.2%
Master's degree
25%
Teacher qualification degree
22.9%
Pre-Bologna degrees
9.3%
Other types of degrees
2.6%

Central services

Opening hours central student counselling

Special features regarding the library

Locations: In addition to the central library, the university library includes nine branch libraries and the university archive (with university collections).; Stock: The stock totalling six million media items is predominantly freely accessible.; Services: From textbook collections to special databases, the university library supports all teaching and research fields. It is geared towards current content, modern formats and innovative acquisition models. The broad range of webinars and training courses offered by the university library ranges from a first comprehensive introduction to the library "University Library Compact Online" and introductions to the two reference management programmes Citavi and Endnote to individual research coaching. With the Actionbound app, you can also familiarise yourself with the library locations in a playful and individual way.
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Foreign language center and courses

There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, French, German as a Foreign Language, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Latin, Turkish, Arabic, German Sign Language, Czech, Hungarian.
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Special features regarding university sports

The university offers its own sports programme. Students can participate in the sports programme of the cooperating universities and universities of applied sciences in Berlin and Brandenburg. Participation is subject to fees. The university sports programme meets the steadily increasing demand, mainly for health sports courses, with an extensive range of specific courses. Sports: The university sports programme of the HU Berlin offers students and employees a broad range of courses. In addition to traditional sports such as football, volleyball or basketball, there are also trend sports such as jugger, e-sports or aerial acrobatics.
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Last update 2024: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education

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