University of Düsseldorf

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) is one of the younger higher education institutions in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – founded in 1965. Since 1988 the university has carried the name of one of the city’s finest sons. Today around 35,000 students study at a modern campus under conditions ideally suited to academic life. As a campus university where everything is close together, all buildings including the University Hospital and the libraries are easily reachable. The university departments enjoy an excellent reputation due to a high number of collaborative research centres. Moreover, the state capital Düsseldorf provides an attractive environment with a high quality of life. Today, the HHU sees itself as a civic university ("Bürgeruniversität"​). This characterization and mission is shaped by urban events and close proximity to the citizens, but also by the great commitment of individual citizens of Düsseldorf to the HHU.