sciendo - docendo - curando
ulm university was founded in 1967 as the youngest university in baden-wuerttemberg and has kept evolving dynamically ever since. an attractive and future-oriented course catalogue, high-quality academic education, international diversity, interdisciplinarity and cutting-edge innovative research have become the trademarks. we provide more than 10,000 students across four faculties with top-level education and support. our faculties engineering, computer sciences and psychology, mathematics and economics, medicine and natural sciences offer in total over 60 study programmes in german and english. as a young research university, we are oriented towards the global challenges of the future: 12 strategic and interdisciplinary research themes are contributing to improvements in the areas of ageing, sustainability, technologies of the future as well as human health and well-being. great success in the acquisition of third-party funding and numerous larger collaborative projects such as collaborative research centres as well as a cluster of excellence are all testimonies to the university's research strength. ulm university is the centre of and driving force behind the science city of ulm, a hub of university and other research institutions, maximum-care hospitals and technology companies.