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Hochschule Bielefeld - University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI)
Standort Bielefeld
Hochschule Bielefeld - University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI)
Standort Bielefeld
Subject areas featured in the ranking
- Applied Natural Sciences (Last update 2025)
- Business Administration (Last update 2023)
- Business Informatics (Last update 2023)
- Business Psychology (Last update 2023)
- Commercial / Business Law (Last update 2023)
- Computer Science (Last update 2024)
- Electrical / Information Engineering (Last update 2025)
- Industrial Engineering (Last update 2023)
- Mechanical Engineering (Last update 2025)
- Mechatronics (Last update 2025)
- Nursing Science (Last update 2024)
- Other Natural-/Health- and Agricultural Sciences (Last update 2024)
- Social Policy and Social Work (Last update 2023)
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Basic information
- Kind of Institution and funding body
- University of applied sciences, public
- Year of foundation
- 1971
- Total number of Students
- 10,264
- Students at this campus
- 8,185
- Semester contribution
- 305.65 €
- Tuition fees
- There are no study fees.
Students by area of study
- Medicine, Health Science
- 8.2%
- Natural Sciences, Mathematics
- 2.3%
- Law, Economic and Social Sciences
- 51.9%
- Humanities, Languages
- 0%
- Engineering Science (incl. Computer Science)
- 30.6%
- Other studies
- 7%
Students by type of degree pursued
- Bachelor's degree
- %
- Master's degree
- %
- Teacher qualification degree
- %
- Pre-Bologna degrees
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- Other types of degrees
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Central services
Opening hours central student counselling
Special features regarding the library
Locations: Central library system with 3 locations: Bielefeld campus university library with learning centre; University library Lampingstraße; Minden campus university library; Stock: Book stock: about 173,000; Approx. 380 printed journals; More than 18,000 e-journals plus e-journal platforms; Approx. 166,000 e-books plus national licences; Service: Expenditure on media in 2023: around EUR 639, 000. Bielefeld campus university library with learning centre and university library Lampingstrasse close to each respective faculties, open about 73 h / week. Around 440 workplaces, some with PCs and 3D printers; targeted orient. Training programme as well as further support offers and competence advice for scientific (digital) work, learning, research, publishing, possibly integrated into courses; ILIAS learning management system and other services for digital teaching and learning
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Foreign language center and courses
There is a foreign language centre. Languages offered: English, German as a Foreign Language, Spanish, Japanese. Students of Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (HSBI) can also participate in courses at the foreign language centre of Bielefeld University via guest access (https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/fsz/languages/fh-students)
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Special features regarding university sports
The university offers its own sports programme. Some courses are free of charge, some subject to fees. The running group consists of students, employees, teachers & alumni of the various departments and institutions of Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. In the summer semester, training will be held on Tuesdays from 5 pm to 6:15 pm, under sports science guidance, at Stadion Rußheide, Mühlenstraße 121 in Bielefeld. In winter, the group moves to different sports halls within Bielefeld. Recently, there has also been an HSBI football community (open training for all levels, Wednesdays from 4:30pm to 6:00pm on the sports field of VfR Wellensiek, right next to the HSBI main building)
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Last update 2025: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education