Facts and Information
Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln
Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln
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Basic information
- Kind of Institution and funding body
- University, public
- Year of foundation
- 1947
- Total number of Students
- 6,117
- Students at this campus
- 6,117
- Semester contribution
- 335.30 €
- Tuition fees
- no data
Students by area of study
- Medicine, Health Science
- 2.9%
- Natural Sciences, Mathematics
- 0%
- Law, Economic and Social Sciences
- 18%
- Humanities, Languages
- 0%
- Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)
- 0%
- Other studies
- 79.1%
Students by type of degree pursued
- Bachelor's degree
- 48.2%
- Master's degree
- 20.9%
- Teacher qualification degree
- 30.4%
- Pre-Bologna degrees
- 0%
- Other types of degrees
- 0.5%
Central services
Opening hours central student counselling
Special features regarding the library
Locations: The Central Library of Sports Sciences (ZBSport) is the university library for the German Sport University Cologne and the largest specialised library for sports and sports sciences internationally; Stock: It has approx. 400 current journals and 19,998 licensed electronic journals, approx. 395,000 media, 436,898 e-books, 8,204 volumes in the textbook collection and much more.; Services: Media borrowing and security has been carried out entirely via RFID technology since 1 October 2025. Use of RFID gives library staff more time to provide advice, offer support with literature searches and respond to individual questions. This is how the library makes a significant contribution to service quality and the attractiveness of the university overall. It offers inter-library lending and document delivery. Countless historic collections can also be found in the ZBSport. Further online tutorial offerings https://www.dshs-koeln.de/zentralbibliothek/
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Special features regarding university sports
The university offers its own sports programme. Together with the university sports centre of the University of Cologne, as part of the cooperation UniSport, the university sports centre of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences offers the most comprehensive sports programme in the city of Cologne. Whether diving, break dancing, floorball, rugby or Tai Chi Chuan - the weekly course programme has a lot to offer. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. In addition to the great variety of weekly courses in cooperation with the University of Cologne (UniSport) described, both universities compete as a Cologne team in national and international student competition sports (including Cologne University of Applied Sciences (TH Köln)). The Cologne team is the most successful team in the General German University Sports Federation (adh) with various championship titles. In addition to the opportunity to participate in German University Championships (DHM) and European Championships both as a single starter and as a team, entry classes are also registered.
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Last update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education