There are almost 300 German Colleges through out the country, more famously called the Hochschulen that admits nearly 2, 00,000 new students each academic year. The first German College was founded in Heidelberg in 1386. However, time has brought many alterations in the higher educational system in Germany since then. The modern German Colleges has undergone radical changes.
One of the most important features of German Colleges is its free college tuition and automatic admission to a desired University. A student has the opportunity of selecting his own program, professors / advisors and also the time of lecture and seminar as per their convenience. Moreover there are no academic fees that are taken from the students. It is free in nature. The German Government grants finance to these Colleges for handling administrative, infrastructural and knowledge impartment responsibilities. This traditional process of imparting education without any charges is called Bildung zum Nulltariff in German.
There are various types of programs available in this German College – some are purely academic based like, Medicine, Law, English, German, some are Vocational, some Technical based. The duration of these courses are also varied. Where as some lasts 4-5 years, there are also few courses that offer shorter and practical oriented. There almost 400 different programs in nationwide Colleges and work autonomously concentrating more on research and teaching.
German Colleges also have international partnerships with overseas educational institutions and corporations. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) facilitates academic exchange for these undergraduates and graduates in the course duration.
Some of these German Colleges are enlisted below:
- Akademie der Bildenden Künste
- Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
- Alice-Salomon-Fachhochschule Berlin
- Altdorf b. Nürnberg
- Fachhochschule Augsburg
- Stadt Augsburg - Medien
- Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter
- Berufsakademie Mosbach Universities of Cooperative Education Bad
- Berufsakademie Mosbach Universities of Cooperative Education Mosbach
- Fachhochschule Bielefeld
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Technische Universitat (TU) Braunschweig
- Alfried Krupp College
- International University Bremen
- Mercator College
- Bucerius Law School
- Chemnitz University of Technology
- Hochschule Darmstadt
- University of Applied Sciences
- Technischen Universität Darmstadt
- Fachhochschule Deggendorf
- Herzogliches Georgianum
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität,
- Technical college Dusseldorf University of Applied Sciences
- East Asia Institute
- Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
- FernUniversität Hagen
- Munich College for Music and Theatre
- Hochschule Konstanz
- Wildau institutes of Technology
- West Saxon University of Applied Sciences (Technical College)
According to the latest census, there are almost 2 million students in German Colleges with greater number foreigners admitted each year.
