At the University of Hamburg (UHH), excellent research and innovative teaching come together. We contribute to this diverse environment and aim to strengthen not only the university but also society for the future through our work.
University of Hamburg...
| Acronym | UHH |
| Nickname | Uni Hamburg |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Departments | 42707 |
| Location | Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany |
| Address | University of Hamburg, Mittelweg 177, 20148 Hamburg |
Following one and a half years of intensive discussion, the University of Hamburg adopted guiding principles in Summer Semester 1998. These describe our goals and the University’s self-image as a “gateway to the world of science and scholarship.” Project groups pursue steps towards 6 global goals for individual areas of responsibility within the University:
Guided by this vision of a cosmopolitan, scientifically high-performing university, the University of Hamburg is committed to...
All changes and support measures that we initiate and implement within the framework of the Excellence Strategy can be assigned to five key areas of action. These serve as our guide and focus areas. Working closely together, they form the basis for a holistic transformation towards an internationally visible, responsible, and innovative institution.
As a flagship university, we – together with our partner institutions – actively shape the future. Guided by the principle of "Innovating and Cooperating for a Sustainable Future in a Digital Age," we stimulate research, teaching, and society through targeted funding measures, new professorships, innovative projects, and high-performing networks.
The members of the university aim to fulfill their academic mission by combining research and teaching, education and training, within a framework of scientific independence. They strive to contribute to the development of a humane, democratic, and just society and to ensure equal access to education and science for both women and men.
The main requirement for admission to Universität Hamburg is the Abitur (German secondary school leaving certificate) or other proof of higher education entrance eligibility. Please see the information on higher education entrance eligibility for details.
Some degree programs require foreign language proficiency in addition to the higher education entrance eligibility.
Beside higher education entrance eligibility and possible foreign language proficiency, some degree programs may have additional program-specific admission requirements.
All applicants must apply online. Be sure to note the specific selection procedure for your chosen degree program. Certain groups must upload documents within the online application. Which documents are to be uploaded by the respective groups is described below.
Application requirements depend upon the master's program to which you want to apply. A first university degree is required, however, for all master's programs.
If you are in the final phase of your first program, you can simply submit proof of enrollment to apply. If you have completed your first university degree in the calendar year in which you apply but do not yet have a certificate or diploma containing your final grade-point average, please submit the most recent copy of your transcript of records, including your grade-point average. The final transcript of records must be submitted as soon as possible. Please also note further information on enrolling in or changing to a master's program.
Prior to commencing their studies, all applicants who completed their first degree at a non-German-language institution must provide proof of sufficient German language skills. This applies both to German-language and bilingual German / English-language master's degree programs.
The page German language proficiency contains information about which German language certificates are accepted. Applicants who have a foreign university degree but who have acquired their higher education entry qualification (e.g., Abitur) at a German-language institution can simply submit this qualification (i.e., the transcript of records for the Abitur).
Master's programs conducted entirely in English do not require proof of German language proficiency, although you do need to submit proof of English language proficiency. Every master's program has its own regulations, so please ensure that you read the information on the master's program to which you want to apply.
To find out which master's programs are offered in German and English and which are English only, please consult degree programs.
Further program requirements
Additionally, several master's programs require further supporting documents. You can find specific details about "your" master's program in the information sheets which can be found on the page "Special admission requirements for master's degree programs" as well as by consulting degree programs .
Detailed information about requirements for individual programs can be found in the tables in the informationen about applying online to a master's program (PDF).
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The Accreditation Council confirmed the effectiveness of the quality management for the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs at the end of November 2021.
The University of Hamburg is therefore system-accredited.
Successful accreditation of our quality management system means that the University of Hamburg will be granted self-accreditation rights. All degree programs that have successfully completed the university's own system and have been internally certified are considered accredited. They will then receive the seal of the Accreditation Council .
Link to the entry in the Elias database of the Accreditation Council for the system accreditation of the University of Hamburg.
Vice president, Freie Universität Berlin (responsible for studies, teaching, and—on an interim basis from March to December 2020—research)
Medical studies, University of Münster, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, a... read more
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The Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) is responsible for developing and implementing an integrated sustainable strategy at the University of Hamburg.
The university's roots stretch back 400 years to the "Academic Gymnasium," founded in 1613, which, having become obsolete, closed in 1883. However, a reorganized "General Lecture Program" (Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen) continued in 1895, offer... read more
The establishment of the "Hamburg Scientific Foundation" in 1907 and the Colonial Institute in 1908 were also important milestones on the path to becoming a university. The foundation's mission was to recruit scholars and support research expeditions and scientific publications. The institute was intended to prepare future colonial officials for their later work abroad.
In addition, several scientific institutes had developed alongside the Academic Gymnasium in the 19th century, such as the Botanical Garden (1821), the Observatory (1833), the State Chemical Laboratory (1878), the State Physical Laboratory (1885), the Laboratory for Merchandise Science (1885) and the Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases (1900).
The young university's beginnings in the 1920s were brilliant. During the Weimar Republic, it quickly gained international renown through outstanding scholars: names like Ernst Cassirer (philosophy), Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (law), Erwin Panofsky (art history), Otto Stern (physical chemistry), and William Stern (psychology) bear witness to this. The impact on the university was correspondingly profound when these scholars, like many others, were dismissed as Jews after the National Socialists seized power. Today, the names of lecture halls, busts, and memorial plaques commemorate those who were expelled—as they do the student members of the Hamburg branch of the "White Rose" resistance group who lost their lives for their resistance against the unjust regime.
Following the expansion of the Von-Melle-Park campus by the mid-1960s, the university district extended, among other areas, towards Bundesstraße, where the 22-story Geomatikum building was constructed in the 1970s. Today, the university has several campuses throughout the city of Hamburg. These include, in addition to the central Von-Melle-Park campus: the climate and geosciences campus Bundesstraße, the Eppendorf campus for medical education, the Bahrenfeld campus with the physics institutes, and the Klein Flottbek campus with the Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology and the Botanical Garden. Other scientific institutions include, for example, the Bergedorf Observatory and the Institute of Wood Science in Lohbrügge.
The University of Hamburg has been exceptionally successful in the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments, the competition to promote top-level university research in Germany: Since 2019, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has funded the Clusters of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter (photon and nanoscience), Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CliCCS) (climate research), Understanding Written Artefacts (manuscript research), and Quantum Universe (mathematics, particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology). Furthermore, in July 2019, the University of Hamburg was awarded the status of University of Excellence for its "Flagship University" concept.
The places, the people, the processes – the University Museum , opened in 2019 in the university's main building to mark its 100th anniversary, offers an overview of all of this. There, visitors can discover well-known and lesser-known stories from 100 years of research, teaching, and education. At the heart of the permanent exhibition, "100! History and Present of the University of Hamburg," is a thematically structured historical journey. It spans from the university's founding through the upheavals of the Nazi era to the university protest movements and structural reforms of the present day.
