The University of Hamburg

The University of Hamburg was established by the federal city state Hamburg in 1919. With approximately 39,900 students, the University of Hamburg is one of the largest educational and research institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany. It offers degrees on all levels.


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Eighteen Faculties offer a broad spectrum of study programmes ranging from law to medicine and from science to the humanities. Excellent education is enhanced by a network of special research facilities allowing for top level research results and scientific progress.

With its broad variety of study programmes and its renown research facilities the University of Hamburg provides excellent conditions for cross-disciplinary approaches at an internationally recognised level. Corresponding to Hamburg's view of itself as the "gateway to the world" the University with its diversity and traditions of subjects and educational offerings, sees itself as the "gateway to the world of knowledge". It has 858 professors engaged in teaching and research, as well as an additional fulltime academic staff numbering 2,783.

Since 1982, the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies with approximately 400 students is part of the University of Hamburg. Due to the restructuring of the university, the institute will become part of the newly founded faculty of economics and social science. The University of Hamburg, faculty of economics and social sciences, is the degree awarding body. The study program, divided into a communication science and a media-practical part, focuses on function and content of contemporary media communication.


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The course of study, combined with internships, is constructed to ensure a well-balanced combination of theory and practical experience for work in all media. A wide range of courses provides students with a solid foundation for working in journalism, public relation and media research.


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The City of Hamburg

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, one of the 16 states of the federation, is the second largest city in Germany with its 1.7 million inhabitants. In this sense, it is a city as well as a state. Hamburg is also culturally and commercially the centre of all of Northern Germany. The metropolitan region consists of 3.5 million people – for all of them, Hamburg is the shopping and cultural metropolis.

The city, located on the Elbe and Alster Rivers, is well known for the colorful activity in the St.Pauli entertainment district, its unforgettable musicals, famous theaters, the Michaelis Church (colloquially der „Michel“) and the impressive harbour. Hamburg, 1200 years old, is loved both for its contemporary scene and for its cultural offerings. In between traditional trading houses and renowned theaters, the latest trends are always cropping up.

Hamburg lies open to many streams of influence. With city-state traditions reaching back for centuries, it has always played a special political and cultural role. Today, as a key commercial hub, an international harbour and a media and cultural center, the metropolis on the Elbe River is once again pursuing ancient traditions with typically hanseatic aplomb. This comes as no surprise: Germany´s second largest city offers a high quality of life and international flair.

Living in Hamburg

Contact for the Erasmus Mundus Masters in Journalism and Media

Monika Pater
Tel.: +49 40 42838 5448 Fax +49 40 42838 2418 Email: monika.pater@uni-hamburg.de