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Since 1991, the Faculty of Music is located in Bremen's city center. It is just a short walk from the town hall, market square, and Roland statue in Bremen's historical city center designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. The Faculty occupies a listed historical building, which has been lovingly restored in recent years and altered to meet a modern music university's requirements. The University of the Arts Bremen is a place of learning and culture. Practice, tuition, and research come together at the University of the Arts in a unique learning environment that unites art, music, design, and science. The University of the Arts Bremen offers students a space to cultivate an individual and creative personality. The University promotes critical dialogue within an open and welcoming atmosphere that nurtures artistic curiosity and reflection. Our teaching staff advises and supports students in a spirit of collaboration and partnership. Our interdisciplinary and integrated approach to art education is well placed to meet the challenges of demographic change, lifelong learning, and the student body's increasingly international make-up. The University of the Arts unites a broad spectrum of artistic and educational perspectives, enriched with current academic and scientific discourses. We provide an inspiring environment for our students and teaching staff, supporting inquisitive learning and research processes and promoting diversity and cooperation. We are an international university with strong ties throughout the region. The University of the Arts encourages students to grow their creative personalities through intercultural dialogue and draws on the University's numerous cooperative partnerships and networks. We take every opportunity to provide our students with an interdisciplinary learning experience, facilitate interdepartmental and interdisciplinary projects, and enable students to engage with experimental perspectives. Excellence in education is rooted in socially aware and intelligent individuals. In recognition of this fact, the University of the Arts actively pursues its equal opportunities policy and seeks to deliver family-friendly work and study frameworks. The University of the Arts Bremen is an excellent environment for creative young people to grow their talents and prepare for a career in the arts. Uniting the disciplines of art and music under a single roof, we occupy a unique place in the German educational landscape. The University of the Arts Bremen offers highly qualified tuition across diverse interdisciplinary programs that transcend the boundaries between music, art, and design. Cooperation between our twin faculties ranges from inter-faculty seminars and workshops to large-scale artistic productions and academic projects. At the University of the Arts Bremen, our students learn to set their own goals, follow their creative urge, cross boundaries, and to accomplish musical, artistic, and design projects through teamwork successfully. The University of the Arts is a medium-sized German college of the arts with approximately 900 students, 65 professors, and over 200 lecturers and teachers. The University is well-equipped to offer students an outstanding education in a wide range of artistic practices. Simultaneously, its compact size allows students to enjoy close working relationships with their teachers in a warm, welcoming, and inspirational atmosphere. The University of the Arts Bremen combines state-of-the-art tuition with innovative career development initiatives and professional practice: spin-out companies, start-ups, joint ventures, and a diverse range of cooperative projects link the University of the Arts wider cultural and economic environment at a local, regional and international level. Close cooperation with partner universities and other cultural institutions, including Bremen's theatres, museums, orchestras, and the Haus der Wissenschaft science center, lend our study programs a distinctly hands-on flavor, enabling our students to acquire the skills they need for their professional practice. This strong artistic and academic profile is bolstered by our students' close contact with professionals, along with expert feedback and opportunities to learn project management skills and gain entrepreneurial experience. With two centers in Bremen's inner city and harbor precinct, the University of the Arts is firmly anchored in the heart of Bremen's historical, architectural and cultural landscape. Our Faculty of Music is just a short walk from the town hall, market square, and Roland statue in Bremen's historical city center, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. The Faculty of Art & Design in Bremen's Überseestadt has become a magnet for start-up ventures in the creative industries and is a significant factor in revitalizing one of Bremen's most up-and-coming suburbs. The University of the Arts Bremen stages a diverse range of concerts, exhibitions, symposiums, and workshops each year. It has become a major cultural institution in Bremen and the wider region. A host of national and international awards and accolades won by both students, and our teaching staff members testify to our programs' exceptional quality. Our unique combination of artistic practice and in-depth historical and theoretical analysis guarantees that students enjoy a world-class education. Since its inception, our university magazine – VIER – has been showered with awards, including a gold medal at the Best of Corporate Publishing Awards and the IF Design Award. On top of this, the University won first prize at the German Music University Awards 2007. View full university

The University of Bremen is a young university. It was founded in 1971 for teacher training. What was to become known as the "Bremen Model "was conceived in times of social reform. Its core elements apply to this day. These basic principles first made the subsequent research success possible: Interdisciplinary orientation, research-based learning in teaching projects, orientation to the practice, and social commitment. Some new guiding principles have been added since teaching and research, equal gender opportunity, and environmental responsibility. The University of Bremen is a medium-sized German university with around 20,000 students. For its committed and talented students, Bremen offers a wide range of subjects: More than 100 master's programs and bachelor's programs, as well as the state law exam. And with research-based learning, the University had reinterpreted project studies, a defining feature originating from when it was founded. Two thousand five hundred academics (41%), among them 270 professors (29% women), teach and research in a wide range of disciplines: In the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities, as well as in teacher training, we have a long-established tradition in interdisciplinary cooperation and excellent research. In 2012, the University's Institutional Strategy "Ambitious and Agile" led to it being awarded the title of "The University of Excellence," one of only eleven universities in Germany. The issues of today's and future societies are dealt with in six high-profile interdisciplinary areas focused on the oceans and the global climate, the future of industrial production, the social conflicts of modern welfare states, the interfaces between digital technology and humans, the logistics of global supply chains, and equity in health care. The University promotes diversity, has always encouraged the implementation of new ideas and its young researchers' independence, and takes its social responsibilities seriously. We are not afraid to be the first to tread new territory: Founded as a reform university, we aim to breathe life into change. The University has been cooperating successfully with the non-university research institutes in its immediate vicinity for a long time; this includes 11 jointly funded by the federal government and the federal states. More than 50 so-called 'cooperation professors' can testify to this. Our vision: To further anchor Bremen as a leading European research university and an inspiring place of education. To achieve this, we rely on our strengths, on the potential of all University members, and the trusting cooperation with our partners. In only forty years, the University of Bremen – founded in 1971 – has achieved the status of being named a "University of Excellence." In 2012, together with ten other German universities, it acknowledged merit for its institutional strategy concept for cutting-edge research. Some have called it "the Weser miracle" due to high motivation, close cooperation, and apparent profiling over several decades. The University continues to pursue its path of excellent research. This remains the case, even though it was unable to gain the required two clusters of excellence in the current round of the Excellence Initiative and is therefore no longer eligible to apply to the funding program "Excellence University" in the period after 2019. However, in the current round of the Excellence Strategy, the University of Bremen is still running with the MARUM proposal "Ocean Floor," where an excellence cluster is already working. The BIGSSS social science graduate school, which received funding in two phases of the Excellence Initiative, has been jointly funded permanently by the University of Bremen and Jacobs University. There is no further funding for graduate schools in the excellence competition. Nevertheless, the University currently has more DFG Collaborative Research Centers than ever before: This is mainly owing to its high profile research areas and profiling strategy that began over twenty years ago. The University of Bremen is now system accredited and can thus conduct its independent quality management in teaching. The current focus is on research-based learning and setting up innovative new master's programs; these are also characteristics of an Excellent University. At the same time, it is establishing new, dependable career paths with a tenure perspective and the professorship career path. The whole University was involved in developing the future perspectives formulated in "Strategy 2018-2028". The institutional strategy entitled "Ambitious and Agile" is a development strategy for the entire University. The nine measures formulated in the strategy have strengthened the University as a whole. The funding totaling 45 million euro lasted for five years (November 2012 to October 2017). The federal and state governments have extended the funding by two years until 2019. The Institutional Strategy built bridges: Eleven cooperative junior research groups (M1) have established new research topics at the interface between the University and our partner research institutes – and thus introduced a new career concept. Among their members was Céline Teney, who received both the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize awarded by the DFG and a Heisenberg Professorship. Five bridge professorships anchor long-term cooperation with our partners, who also participate financially. A new framework for this was created in 2016 with the establishment of the U Bremen Research Alliance. The Rectorate has also initiated other essential developments in the University's high-profile areas: MAPEX in materials science and the social sciences merger into SOCIUM. Both now create more cooperation and more international visibility over the long term. And in computer science, the Graduate College Systems Design (SyDe) now combines the promotion of young researchers from the University, DFKI, and DLR. The Institutional Strategy has systematically expanded the University's capacity for innovation: Only in this way can new topics, new structures, and new areas of professorial work be established on an ongoing basis. Exploration projects for individual research were newly established. Supplemented by an interdisciplinary component, they are now an integral part of our Central Research Funding. With the Creative Units, the University has given six interdisciplinary groups the chance to pursue new research lines – over three-year periods and with a great deal of freedom. It will also be possible to implement this innovative funding format in the future. Moreover, as planned, the University consolidated some of the limited-term professorships set up in the Institutional Strategy frame. It boosted some incredibly dynamic subjects (energy research, media and communication sciences, East European research, and post-colonial studies). Following the founding of the University ― as an "academic complex" on the outskirts of the town ― and several reforms initially, a period of consolidation set in through the nineteen-eighties. The University of Bremen grew in size. New faculties for natural science and engineering were established. The University started cooperating with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research in Bremerhaven, and the Technology Park was created (1988). The University of Bremen also began to score its first successes with the establishment of Collaborative Research Centers (in 1988, the University was accepted into the German Research Society - DFG) and substantial external funding. Steadily improving research rankings, growing national and international recognition, and many endowment professorships were the visible fruits of this success. The University advanced this success further by establishing a set of new guiding principles. Among other things, the University concentrated efforts on the promotion of young research talent. It implemented personnel development programs for its young researchers, many of whom were awarded professorships in the wake of the generation change that was taking place. In addition to all this, teaching and studies at the University of Bremen underwent a considerable change: A new admission policy, for instance, with program-specific enrolment requirements, and the swift transition of study programs to Bachelor and Master Degrees. The reward for this commitment came with the title "City of Science 2005", awarded to Bremen and Bremerhaven due to joint efforts on the part of science, politics, culture, and the enterprise sector. Today, some 25,000 people study, teach, research, and work at the University of Bremen. It has become the center of science and research in the North West of Germany, particularly renowned for its strengths in the natural and engineering sciences and the social sciences and the humanities. The work carried out by its excellent researchers, many renowned, provides an essential stimulus to societal development. As the outstandingly favorable outcome of its showing in the underscores, the University is not content to bathe in past success and rest on its laurels. As a "learning organization, "it is continuously adapting the role it intends to play in the present and future research and academic landscape. View full university

Jacobs University is a private, English-language campus-based university offering the highest standards in research and teaching. Through academic education, intensive support, and through living together on an international campus, its objective is to encourage young, talented people, irrespective of nationality, religion, and background in becoming citizens of the world, able to take a leading and responsible roles for the future sustainable and peaceful development of humanity. As a private university, Jacobs University Bremen is independent of government control of its mission, strategic direction, and resources. Jacobs University Bremen is governed by an independent board of governors who serve as trustees of the institution's resources and mission. The Jacobs University Bremen Board of Governors comprises leading figures from international business, politics, and academia. The Board is responsible for monitoring the implementation of Jacobs University Bremen's guiding principles, ensuring adequate resources for the university's operation, and approving budgets and personnel recommendations put forward by the President. The President is responsible for all administrative and academic operations of the university. Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH is a registered non-profit organization. Its statutes comprise four bodies: the Councilors, the Board of Trustees, the Board of Governors, and the Executive Board, which comprises the President and the Managing Director of the university. The Board of Governors is the main decision-making body for all fundamental issues that affect the university's development, including the appointment of the President and professors. Jacobs University is a private university located in Bremen and one of the most international and intercultural universities you can find in Germany. It attracts highly talented and open-minded students worldwide. About 1,400 students from 110 nations currently live and study on our residential campus. Jacobs University is a research-oriented, state-accredited university with a broad portfolio of pre-degree, undergraduate, and graduate study programs from the natural and social sciences, engineering, and economics. All programs are taught in English. Extensive extracurricular activities support and strengthen our students' personal development. At Jacobs University, class sizes are small, and for each student, a professor acts as a personal mentor and academic advisor. Students are actively involved in research from their first year of study. In research and teaching, our faculty members follow a transdisciplinary approach, addressing issues from multiple perspectives. In Germany's most comprehensive and detailed university ranking by the Center for Higher Education (CHE), Jacobs University has consistently scored top marks since first participating in 2005. On a campus where the whole world is at home, we provide an education that transcends disciplines and cultural boundaries. Jacobs students graduate as responsible global citizens ready to use their acquired skills to make a difference in tomorrow's world. Jacobs Students come from all over the world to live and learn at Jacobs University. Our student body represents 112 nations with an average age of 21 years. They form an ambitious campus community whose internationality is unprecedented in Europe. Jacobs University's green and tree-shaded 80-acre campus provides much more than buildings for teaching and research. Jacobs undergraduate students live on campus in modern single rooms in one of four residential colleges. Each college has its dining room, recreational lounge, study areas, and standard and group meeting rooms. A Student Activities Center, various sports facilities, a cinema, a music studio, a student-run café /bar, concert venues, and our Interfaith House ensure that you will always have something interesting to do. Why don't you let our students show you around campus in our Virtual Campus Tour? Jacobs University offers excellent academic education and many opportunities for students outside of the classroom. The various student-driven social and cultural activities encompass events throughout the year, and student clubs range from arts to sports and community groups. An essential component of Jacobs University's educational mission is to foster student growth and development of interpersonal and intercultural competencies, which are increasingly important in an interconnected, globalized world. The department of Mathematics & Logistics is home to programs including Industrial Engineering & Management, Supply Chain Engineering and Management, and Mathematics. Information influences the life of the individual and the cohesion of societies and cultures in many different ways. Expertise in these disciplines contributes to Jacobs's focus on Mobility. The department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering is home to programs including Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Intelligent Mobile Systems. Information influences the life of the individual and the cohesion of societies and cultures in many different ways. Expertise in these disciplines contributes to Jacobs's focus on Mobility. Planning and preparing for your academic future is an important step. Join Jacobs University's Foundation Year Program to explore different fields of study and acquire academic learning skills before starting your bachelor's degree. Based on your unique academic background and your needs and goals, you can design your own Foundation Year learning experience. As a Foundation Year student, you can attend undergraduate courses from various fields of study and choose between different preparatory classes to improve your academic skills. Furthermore, you live on our international campus and can enjoy the full perks of student life in the residential colleges. View full university