The Universität Tübingen was found over 500 years ago in 1477 by Eberhard im Bart, Count and later Duke of Württemberg. Since its founding the University has helped to foster and shape the country's life and development through its internationally recognised research and teaching.

The University of Tübingen has approximately 20 000 students enrolled in 15 faculties:

Faculty of Protestant Theology
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of History
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Faculty of Modern Languages
Faculty of Cultural Sciences
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Faculty of Biology
Faculty of Geosciences
Faculty of Informatics

The University is located in the "student town" of Tübingen which has 85 000 inhabitants. Tübingen is situated approximately 40 kilometres south of Stuttgart at the start of the Swabian Alps.

International office homepage http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/international/english/start-e/index.html

Information for exchange students http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/international/english/incoming-e/index.html

German language course information http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/isp/index_englisch.html

Courses/Programs offered in English

Undergraduate

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/international/english/lehre-e/index.html

Postgraduate

International Studies in Computational Linguistics http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/iscl/

Graduate School of Neural and Behavioural Sciences http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/neuroschool

Applied Environmental Geosciences http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/geo/msc-aeg/