Time for Discovery!

Time for discovery!

Legend Map of Germany for international students and doctoral candidates 1 University

1 University of applied sciences (UAS)

1 College of art and music 1 Other higher education institution Denmark Baltic Sea Airport Flensburg 1 1 Regional airport

Beach (selection) Kieler Bucht Ski area (selection) Nordfriesische Fehmarn Inseln Rügen Kiel 1 2 1 Mecklenburger Bucht 1 Stralsund Helgoland Heide 1

Deutsche Bucht 1 1 1 Usedom Nord-Ostsee-Kanal Rostock Greifswald North Sea Schleswig- Holstein Lübeck 1 1 1 Wismar 1 Ostfriesische Inseln

Elmshorn 1 Mecklenburg-

1 Wedel Neubrandenburg 1 1 1 Western Wilhelmshaven Bremerhaven Hamburg 6 8 2 1 1 Buxtehude Pomerania Emden 1 Hamburg Leer 1

Lüneburg 1

Ems 1 Oldenburg Bremen Ottersberg 1 Elbe Poland 2 2 1 1 Bremen Netherlands Weser Hermannsburg 1 1 Neuruppin 1 Eberswalde

Vechta 1 1 Oder Lower Saxony Berlin Diepholz 1 1 Wustermark Berlin 10 24 5

3 4 1 Hannover 1 Brandenburg Potsdam 1 4 1 1 Frankfurt (Oder) Wildau 1 Osnabrück 1 1 Braunschweig 1 1 1 1 Hildesheim 1 1 Friedensau Hameln 1 Wolfenbüttel 1 1 1 Herford Magdeburg Lemgo 1 1 3 Bielefeld Weser 1 Brandenburg 2 1 1 Münster Detmold Ems

1 Kleve Saxony-Anhalt Elbe 1 Wittenberg North Rhine-Westphalia 1 Claustal-Zellerfeld 1 Rhein Cottbus 1 Lippstadt Wernigerode 1 Paderborn 2 1 Hamm 2 1 Köthen 1 Gelsenkirchen Dortmund 1 2 1 1 2 Essen Bochum 1 5 Göttingen 1 1 Neiße 1 Duisburg Mülheim 1 Nordhausen 1 Halle an der Saale 1 2 Witten 1 Iserlohn 2 1 Krefeld Hagen 1 1 Merseburg 2 1 2 Wuppertal 2 Kassel 1 1 Leipzig Saxony 1 3 2 Düsseldorf 1 Bad-Soden-Allendorf 1 Werra Thuringia 1 Moritzburg Görlitz

Dresden 2 3 4 Fulda 1 2 5 2 Mittweida Köln Weimar 1 1 1 Zittau 1 1 1 1 Erfurt Freiberg 1 Brühl Siegen Hesse Jena 1 1 1 Chemnitz Aachen 1 1 1 1 Gera 1 1 Alfter Sankt Augustin 1 1 Dietzhölztal 1 1 Bonn 1 1 1 Marburg 1 Hachenburg 1 Zwickau Schmalkalden Ilmenau 1 Bad Honnef 1 Gießen 1 2 Rhein Fulda 1 1 Belgium Vallendar 2 1 1 Koblenz

1 Hof Bad Homburg 1 1 Idstein Coburg 1 Oberursel 1 Mosel Frankfurt 3 2 2 Wiesbaden 1 2 Offenbach 1 1 Geisenheim

1 2 1 1 Bernkastel-Kues 1 Bingen Mainz Aschaffenburg Bamberg 1 Bayreuth 1 1 Darmstadt 1 2 Czech Republic 1 Pfungstadt Main 1 1 1 Luxembourg Trier 2 1 Rhineland- Würzburg Bavaria Palatinate 1 Worms 1 Erlangen Weiden 1

Mannheim 1 3 1 1 Ludwigshafen 1 Fürth Saarland 1 1 Kaiserslautern Nürnberg 1 2 2 Amberg 1 Heidelberg 3 2 1 Saar 1 Speyer Neckar Saarbrücken 1 2 2 Ansbach 1 Neuendettelsau 1 Landau 1 Heilbronn 2 Karlsruhe 2 2 3 Regensburg 1 1 1

Eichstätt 1 1 1 1 Pforzheim Ludwigsburg 1 1 Deggendorf 1 Bad Liebenzell Aalen Stuttgart 3 8 2 1 Schwäbisch Gmünd 1 1 Donau Ingolstadt 1 1 1 Hohenheim Esslingen France Nürtingen 1 1 Passau 1 1 Landshut 1 Tübingen 2 Reutlingen 1 1 Offenburg 1 1 Rottenburg Freising Ulm 1 1 Neu-Ulm 1 Augsburg 1 1 Albstadt 1 Donau Inn Baden-Württemberg Ismaning 1 Riedlingen 1 München 3 5 3 1 Furtwangen Trossingen 1 1 Sigmaringen 1 Biberbach Neubiberg 1 Freiburg 2 2 1 The data presented in this university map was kindly provided by the Austria German Rectors‘ Conference (HRK). Rhein 1 Rosenheim Bodensee Weingarten 1 www.hochschulkompass.de Kempten 1 Ravensburg 1 1 2 Konstanz Friedrichshafen 1

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Harsh Vivek Harkare Schleswig-Holstein Economics (M.Sc.) Lai Chun-Kuei University of Göttingen Energy Studies (PhD) Freie Universität Berlin Radwa Abo Shady For me the most impressive Political Science (M.A.) landscape in Germany is the Freie Universität Berlin My advice? Try to discover as much area around the Königsee in the as possible during your stay in Berlin is a very tolerant city. Mecklenburg- Berchtesgaden National Park. Germany. Sure, big cities like Berlin You can really sense its cultural It’s like paradise! When I gaze and Hamburg are really cool. But Western diversity at the four-day festival out at the lake, I forget there‘s something very enchanting Hamburg “Carnival of Cultures”. I was Pomerania everything. Hiking there is truly and charming about smaller towns especially impressed by open house - an extraordinary experience. that have an almost fairy tale-like day at the Chancellery and Bellevue quality, such as Goslar and Rothen Castle where you can experience burg ob der Tauber. Bremen German politics up close.

Lower Saxony

Berlin

Interested in architecture? The Bauhaus in Dessau! Brandenburg

Saxony-Anhalt Md Masum Alam Political Science (M.A.) North Rhine-Westphalia University of Cologne Have you heard about the witches

- on the Blocksberg? Cologne is a vibrant, very interna Saxony tional city with lots of nature and Thuringia exciting architecture. The Cologne Cathedral is simply fantastic. And you don‘t want to miss Carnival Hesse when everyone dresses up in crazy costumes and enjoys the typical Cologne beverage called “Kölsch“.

Leipzig Book Fair – Rhineland- A book-lovers paradise every spring Palatinate

Saarland Andrey Veselov German teacher in Russia and former exchange student in Berlin Porta Nigra - THE must-see Bavaria attraction in Trier I return to Germany every year to explore another part of the Baden-Württemberg country and refresh my language skills. It doesn’t matter where you go in Germany, there’s always so many interesting things to discover – picturesque landscapes, exciting museums and events, of course, Kayfe Nwosu delicious specialties. Sustainable International Agriculture (M.Sc.) University of Göttingen One of my favourite places to visit in Kassel is the “Hercules“. I find River surfing on such old buildings simply breath- the Eisbachwelle taking! You walk along this incredible in Munich! water staircase with an amazing view of the castle. It’s especially pretty in autumn when the leaves change – but don’t forget to take your umbrella.

Publisher DAAD German Academic Exchange Service | Kennedyallee 50, 53175 Bonn (Germany) | www.daad.de Section K23 – Information on Studying in Germany | Project coordination Judith Lesch, Stefanie Gruber-Sliva, Angela Faust, Kerstin Nolden, DAAD | Text Dr. Dagmar Giersberg, Bonn Translation Robert Brambeer, Titisee-Neustadt | Layout and typesetting DITHO Design GmbH, Cologne | Photo credits Jan von Allwörden, Hannover | Printed by W. Kohlhammer Druckerei GmbH + Co. KG, Stuttgart © DAAD | Print run January 2020 – 45,000 | This publication was funded by the Federal Foreign Office.