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.