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Studying in a Palace
Who hasn't dreamed of living in a palace? This dream has come true for many of Bonn's 38,000 students. At least it does for a few hours a day, even if the enjoyment has to be shared with all the others listening in at a well-attended lecture or seminar. It just so happens that a large part of the city's Friedrich Wilhelm University is located on the old Elector's palace grounds.
Large Selection of Subjects
Founded in 1786, Bonn's university is one of Germany's oldest and greatest places of higher learning. Students can choose among 50 courses of study here. Besides the subjects in the school of liberal arts or "philosophische Fakultät", the university also offers degree programs in medicine, law, political science, math, economics and agricultural science. This department's most exciting feature is "ARTS", a bilingual postgraduate program that provides its students with extensive knowledge of agricultural resource management in tropical and subtropical problem regions.
The university is particularly proud of its International Science Forum. The Forum is divided into the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the Center for European Integration Research (ZEI). Together, both strive to play a part in European integration as well as in solving global development problems.
No Core Campus
In contrast to many other European universities, Bonn does not have a core campus. Its institutes, seminars, and the clinics of the medical school are scattered throughout the city's various neighborhoods. But Bonn is still a small city and any part of the university can be reached conveniently either on foot or by bicycle.
Bonn's students love their university for its proximity to the city center and the Rhine. The great lawn in front of the palace is a favorite place to relax after taking in a lecture. And for anybody who prefers studying in the great outdoors instead of dusty libraries, it's only a stone's throw to the Rhine meadows.
Bonn's Bad Godesberg district is the seat of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. This foundation helps graduate students from around the world make their longer-term study plans come true in Germany. Besides Humboldt research fellowships for foreign academics, the foundation awards special research fellowships to scientists from developing countries, the Georg-Forster-Stipends.
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Masaru Ushijima from Japan on his reasons to study in Bonn:
"There is a noble prize winner at the university, Prof. R. Selten, and that is why I chose Bonn" (German)
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