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The Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover (HMTMH) are among Germany's most renowned institutions for professional training and academic study in the cultural and artistic field. Some 360 teachers, amongst them numerous internationally celebrated artists, educationalists, and academics teach nearly 1,500 students from all over the world. The balance between music, drama, education, and academic research and the commitment to excellence both at the highest level of solo performance and in the broader training of ensemble players and teachers are at the core of HMTMH's understanding of its role. To this end, the University provides a broad but differentiated offering of courses and programs, currently consisting of 33 study programs supplemented by world-class master classes. About 500 public concerts and performances a year make the HMTMH one of the most prominent organizers of cultural events in the State of Lower Saxony. To provide long-term support for "Hanover, Region of Culture" and "Lower Saxony, Land of Music," Lower Saxony's only conservatoire stays in a permanent exchange with society and initiates several musical outreach activities. The highest level of international recognition accorded the HMTMH has always been for its artistic performance programs. The overall focus is on the promotion of individual talent as well as of orchestral competence. In the instrumental performance programs, professors teach all orchestral instruments except the harp – this is a clear commitment to orchestral musicians' professional training right across the board and secures the HMTMH a top-ranking position both in a national and in an international perspective. The Departments of Chamber Music, Contemporary Music, Ancient Music, Jazz|Rock|Pop, and Musicology are sources of artistic inspiration for the HMTMH's more comprehensive range of offerings. Furthermore, the Institute for the Early Advancement of the Musically Highly Gifted (IFF), established in 2001, plays a vital role in providing professional training for talented young musicians. Around 500 international students and many teachers from all over the world show the HMTMH emphasis on internationality. However, internationality is not only created by the presence of international students but through mobility and exchange. At the HMTMH, this concept is put into practice in both teaching and research. The HMTMH profits from an outstanding international network and many cooperations, animating you to join this versatile and vivid environment. Offering a large variety of undergraduate and graduate programs in Music, Drama, and Media, the University provides the opportunity to combine the meeting diversity of interests. In cooperation with local cultural institutions, the HMTMH has become an international well-positioned university uniting both art and science on the highest level, creating a place of cultural diversity and innovation. The HMTMH is a member of the ERASMUS community and has possessed an ERASMUS-Charta since 2000. A long list of partners enables students and teachers, and staff members to join in the European mobility according to their interests and needs. Moreover, the University is a member of the AEC (Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen), the European cultural and pedagogical network of 270 institutions from 55 countries. The International Office of the HMTMH advises and informs students, teachers, and staff wishing to spend some time abroad and people interested in spending a period at the HMTMH. Offering information on scholarships and grants, language, activities, and financial matters make the International Office your partner in all international matters. The German language has a reputation that it is difficult to learn. Even for Germans! However, it consists of many details that are not so important at the beginning even if you are insecure about your German, talk! The International Office offers many opportunities for you to practice either during the language course or the activities. It is difficult for famous people to learn and understand the German grammar you may read in this text by Mark Twain. Furthermore, we have created a little emergency kit for you. View full university

We focus on Business Studies and Computer Science courses. Academic training and professional qualifications always go hand in hand here. The quality and the requirements of studying here are high. The bachelor’s degree comprises 210 rather than the more usual 180 credit points – and this is attainable in only three years of studying. From school leaving certificate to a master’s degree in only four years is possible here. International competition and outstanding achievement: the private University of Applied Sciences in Hannover, also known as the FHDW Hannover, has taken on these challenges. After all, in this age of globalised information, no one will be successful unless they stimulate innovation and actively and aggressively shape the markets – and already start while they are still studying. During the studies of business, computer sciences for business and information technology at the FHDW Hannover – in Bachelor and Masters study programmes. The demands are high and the pace is challenging: in a tightly-intertwined combination of theory and on-the-job practice, the students earn their degrees after three years and after just two in the Masters study programmes. During this time, they receive the best in support and career opportunities – in the management of internationally active companies as well as in medium-sized enterprises. The excellent standing of the FHDW Hannover in the rankings is convincing proof. The Bachelor and Master’s courses at FHDW Hannover are consistent with the requirements of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). In line with the ECTS principles FHDW Hannover awards Credit Points (CP) for academic achievements. For studies at a foreign university up to 15 CPs per semester can be counted towards an FHDW degree. The prerequisite here is an appropriate Learning Agreement with the foreign partner university. Furthermore the academic achievements must be satisfactory and recorded in the Transcript of Records as well as in the Diploma Supplement of the FHDW. For internships and mobility activities a maximum of 8 CPs for an internship of at least 6 and a maximum of 12 weeks can be recognised providing a project report is submitted. The FHDW Hannover is a private university of applied sciences operating independently. It broadens the limits of knowledge by using scientific methods and new technologies with entrepreneurial spirit and social responsibility. The FHDW Hannover sees itself as a partner of business representing the students’ interests. The co-operation companies pay the student fees for particularly gifted and motivated FHDW students. They offer them practical application opportunities for the students’ theoretical knowledge and are engaged in research projects. The study courses and research fields which the FHDW focuses on are applied computer studies as well as all the business and technical application fields requiring a good comprehensive and information technology-based knowledge of control mechanisms. The independent teaching and research faculty for Business Studies complements the information technology competencies and also offers a comprehensive study programme specialising in medium-sized enterprises, the management of international companies and the insurance business. The FHDW Hannover is consistent in changing over to the specifications for European universities in its study courses. Its Bachelor and Master programmes are modularised, take into consideration the specifications of the European Credit Point System (ECTS) and fulfil international quality standards. The FHDW Hannover recognises the crucial contribution its staff make to the success of the university of applied sciences. It supports them by providing resources, delegating responsibility and providing room for creative and independent achievements. Different qualifications and alternative doctrines are recognised as the basis for creative problem solving. All teaching and research results are evaluated systematically and form the basis for objectives which are agreed annually and co-operatively. The FHDW Hannover is financed as a non-profit making enterprise by means of student fees, external funding for research projects and from donations. Financial surpluses are used in a non-profit making way to achieve the FHDW Hannover’s research and educational objectives. The FHDW Hannover is a small university with an almost family-like atmosphere: Every professor looks after an average of only 21 students. The advantage: Every student can establish a lasting personal relationship to the lecturers. This is what makes the outstanding quality of supervision at the FHDW Hannover possible. This relationship is built up in small workgroups and intensified in fixed consulting hours with the lecturers. Moreover even when at home and on days without lectures the lecturers are always available for the students. Not only for problems connected with studying. View full university

The Hannover Medical School, founded in 1965, is one of the world's leading university medical centers. Our research and patient care set national and international standards. We are also part of an excellent regional medical network. Our outstanding success in interdisciplinary collaboration both within the MHH and with extramural scientific institutions is reflected in the fact that the MHH is the German medical university with the most significant grant funding volume. The origins of the Hannover Medical School (MHH) go back to 1961. In June of that year, the National Science Council (WR) recommended that seven new academies of medicine be founded in the Federal Republic of Germany to increase the number of students of medicine by 7,000. Within the month, the parliament of Lower Saxony decided to go forward with plans to establish a state medical university here. A committee to found a medical academy in Hannover met for the first time in December of 1961. By February of the following year, it had been decided that this academy would be located in Hannover's city. On April 1, 1963, the government of Lower Saxony issued an order to establish the Medical Academy of Hannover, and this was to be the MHH. In 1965, after less than four years of planning, the medical school structure had been decided on, and construction plans were complete. On May 17, 1965, a celebration marking the founding of the MHH was held at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. The founding rector of the MHH was the internist, Professor Rudolf Schoen of the University of Göttingen. He was succeeded by the first elected rector, Professor Fritz Hartmann, who played a decisive role in the concept and physical form of the MHH. The MHH was realized as a university campus on grounds in Roderbruch. The proximity of the clinics and institutes guarantees intense integration of patient care, research, and teaching. The first classes were held in the summer semester of 1965, in the Hannover Oststadt Hospital. The student-teacher ratio was ideal, with 12 teachers and 41 students, but this did not remain for long. Within ten years, the number of students rose to about 1,000, and after only 20 years, to 3,000. With the addition of new departments, the original number of 12 professors increased to about 140. Only 12 years after the MHH was founded, 80 percent of the planned departments and clinics realized. HBRS is an interdisciplinary graduate school for physicians (MD/Ph.D., MBBS, Dr.med.) and life scientists (Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Engineering, Veterinary Sciences, etc.). Currently, HBRS students come from more than 40 different countries. In October 2006, HBRS was awarded the title "excellent graduate school." HBRS receives support for more than six years from the German government (DFG) in the German "Excellence Initiative." Additional funding is available through - among others - participating in the DFG Excellence Clusters "REBIRTH" (MHH) as well as "Hearing4all" (Oldenburg/ MHH), the Georg Christoph Lichtenberg program of Lower Saxony (DEWIN) as well as the "Niedersachsen Vorab" program by the Ministry of Science and Culture/ Volkswagenstiftung. HBRS was founded in October 2003. All graduate programs (see left) of Hannover Medical School and partner institutes are coordinated here. We are very proud to announce that our Ph.D. program "Molecular Medicine" and HBRS celebrated its 15th anniversary of structured doctoral training in October 2015. We are the pioneering graduate school in Germany in the field of Biomedicine. View full university