Federal state
Studying in North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia has 4,064 programmes at 90 institutions in 95 places of study.
- programmes
- 4,064programmes
- universities
- 90universities
- cities
- 95cities
- open admission
- 75%open admission
- taught (partly) in English
- 27%taught (partly) in English
North Rhine-Westphalia has public universities in Aachen, Cologne, Münster, Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg-Essen, Düsseldorf, Bielefeld, Paderborn, Siegen and Wuppertal, among others, plus the German Sport University Cologne. FernUniversität in Hagen is a public university for distance learning.
There are also many universities of applied sciences, art and music colleges, and private and church-run institutions. Teacher training in North Rhine-Westphalia is a bachelor's followed by a Master of Education.
At public institutions you usually pay no tuition for a first degree, only a semester contribution. Details come from the institutions' own websites, and the institution's page is authoritative.