Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Very few institutions of higher education are able to profit from a first-class research cluster like the one in Göttingen: the university is surrounded by five Max Planck Institutes, a German Aerospace Centre research facility, the German Primate Centre, a number of independent research institutes and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. The university draws considerable benefit from this – as do researchers from all over the world. For example, it has been able to establish new high-tech courses such as bioinformatics, molecular biosciences and neurosciences in close cooperation with research and industry. Seven Nobel Prize winners, including Gustav Hertz and Max Born, have taught in Göttingen, and more than 40 of them have conducted research here – most recently, Herbert Kroemer. Very few university towns are as strongly influenced by their universities as Göttingen with its old half-timbered houses: a total of 24,000 students live and study here – among just 129,000 inhabitants.

FACTS

Students: 24,000

Foreign students: 3,000

Professors: 489

Departments: 13

Year of foundation: 1737

Population: 129,106

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