and Media” are of key importance in shaping the • modern, well-equipped library university’s diverse research profile. These areas of • Language Centre and self-access area for specialization have been intensified by the creation independent study of graduate schools and centres. • modern Communication and Information Centre with PC pools ERFURT IN THE CENTRE OF GERMANY • possibility to get involved in numerous student THE CITY OF ERFURT associations and groups Erfurt, a city of approximately 200,000 inhabitants • “semester ticket”: the student ID entitles students and the capital of the free state of Thuringia, looks to use public transportation within and around back over more than 1250 years of history. Located at Erfurt free of charge the crossroads of important medieval trade routes, • affordable cost of living in a centrally located, Erfurt was the region‘s commercial, political, and culturally lively and historically interesting city cultural centre. The biographies of many prominent • close by where Johann Sebastian Bach, Martin thinkers, such as Meister Eckhart, Martin Luther, Ul- Luther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Fried- rich von Hutten, Adam Ries, and Wilhelm von Hum- rich Schiller lived and worked boldt, were closely connected to Erfurt‘s history. FURTHER INFORMATION The immediate vicinity offers many cultural treasu- • www.daad.de res, too. Weimar, the city of Goethe, Schiller, Herder, (German Academic Exchange Service) Nietzsche and Liszt, as well as Eisenach, birthplace • www.stw-thueringen.de of Johann Sebastian Bach, are among the famous (Student Services) places nearby. Erfurt is located at approx. 2 hours by • www.erfurt.de (City of Erfurt) train from Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, Munich and only • www.hs-nordhausen.de/international/ 5 hours away from Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam and staatliches-studienkolleg Prague. (Pre-university Programme) • www.thaff-thueringen.de/en REASONS TO STUDY AT THE (Thuringian Agency for Skilled UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT: Personnel Marketing) CONTACT • wide variety of BA and MA programmes focused University of Erfurt on humanities, social sciences and education Nordhäuser Str. 63 • no tuition fees (except for Public Policy and 99089 Erfurt certificate programmes) Germany Welcome to the University of Erfurt • campus university with on-campus accommo- www.uni-erfurt.de Information for international dation and student restaurants, family-friendly students and guests facilities and childcare Stand: 06.2021 PORTRAIT Weeks as well as events and activities throughout • Management (minor only) • Philosophy The University of Erfurt is a campus university with the semester. • Mathematics (minor only) • Psychology more than 100 professorships and approximately 6,000 • The “Strangers become Friends” programme • Music • Public Policy (in English; tuition fee) students. The reform university for the arts and hu- enables international students to meet people • Philosophy • Religious Studies (in English) manities with a particular focus on cultural and social outside the university; the “Springboard to Lear- • Primary Education • Special Needs and Integrational Education sciences offers an inspiring atmosphere for studying ning” programme organizes teaching placements • Protestant Religious Education (minor only) • Theology and Economics and conducting academic work. The close ties between in local schools. • Religious Studies • Transcultural History the Faculty of Humanities; Faculty of Education; Facul- • Romance Studies (minor only) ty of Economics, Law, and Social Sciences; Faculty of For exchange students: • Slavic Studies (minor only) RESEARCH Catholic Theology and the Max Weber Centre for Ad- • A 4-week German Preparatory Course prior to • Special Education and Inclusive Pedagogy Research at the University of Erfurt is characterized vanced Cultural and Social Studies help the university every semester that helps exchange students • Sport and Physical Education (minor only) by close ties between the four faculties and the Max- as a whole to forge new paths in teaching and research. settle in in the new place of study. • Teaching, Learning and Training Psychology Weber-Kolleg as well as numerous interdisciplinary Forward-looking academic programmes that combine • Every international exchange student is assigned • Technology Education projects. The university-wide areas of specialization subject-specific knowledge and professionalization, a German student as an international student. “Education, School, and Behaviour”, “Religion, Society, modern forms of teacher training, and the interdisci- tutor who will meet you upon your arrival, show MAGISTER DEGREE and the World Relations”, and “Knowledge, Spaces, plinary general education programme are particular you round the campus and help you particularly • Catholic Theology distinctions of the University of Erfurt. Our mentoring during the first weeks in Erfurt. programme and excellent student-faculty ratio gua- MASTER PROGRAMMES Schwerin Rostock Greifswald 475 km rantee a high-quality education. Refounded in 1994 the COURSE OFFERINGS • Applied Linguistics 491 km 530 km Hamburg 360 km University of Erfurt is one of the youngest public uni- BACHELOR PROGRAMMES • Children’s and Youth Media Studies Bremen versities in Germany and stands out for not charging • Arts • Collections-Based History of Knowledge 337 km tuition fees and its certified family-friendly policy. • Catholic Religion and Culture Berlin 300 km • Communication Science • Democracy & Economy Hannover Magdeburg 217 km 165 km Dortmund Halle THE PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS • Economics, Law and Social Sciences – • Economics, Law and Social Sciences Düsseldorf 348 km 128 km 404 km Kassel 196 km AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT Social Science concentration • Education Science – Management and research Leipzig 140 km • The International Office offers help and advice re- • Economics, Law and Social Sciences – in the education system Dresden Köln Erfurt 210 km garding bureaucratic matters prior to and during Economics concentration • Global Communication: Politics and Society 367 km your stay at the University of Erfurt. • Economics, Law and Social Sciences – (in English) • Supporting German language classes are offered Law concentration • Health Communication Mainz Frankfurt 287 km 257 km throughout the semester. • Educational Science • Literary Studies Nürnberg Saarbrücken 225 km • Every student is assigned a faculty member as an • English and American Studies • Master of Education Primary Schools 436 km

academic advisor who will support in planning the • German Studies • Master of Education Secondary Schools Stuttgart 354 km personal curriculum. • History • Master of Education Special Needs Pedagogy München • The Student Association International Campus • International Relations • Master of Education Vocational Schools 400 km Erfurt (ICE) organizes the International Welcome • Literary Studies • Middle Eastern Sociology/Anthropology and History