Roughly 23,000 people are currently active as students, teachers, researchers, or employees of the University of Bremen. It has become one of Germany`s eleven top universities of excellence. It is the science center of Northern Germany, renowned for its strengths in the sciences and engineering disciplines, as well as the humanities and the social sciences.

Wherever you look, the student body, research work, or life on campus – at the University of Bremen there is truly an abundance of international and intercultural diversity. The University is particularly proud of the support it offers to its international members – whether temporary visitors, students or permanent staff. Round about twenty thousand students from 120 different countries have chosen to study here. And large numbers of young and renowned scholars and scientists have already come to Bremen to teach and carry out research. Following the University’s success in the Excellence Initiative, this welcome development will certainly now receive an additional boost.