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„It’s all or nothing now“ was the header for Professor Dr Horst Köhler’s presentation at Furtwangen University’s Tuttlingen campus. The former president of the Federal Republic of Germany earned great enthusiasm from his large audience. "Education strengthens our ability to look at things carefully ", he said. And, addressing the students in particular: "You can influence how things...

Furtwangen University (HFU) is one of the first universities in Germany to actively pursue a cooperation agreement with a New Zealand university in order to enable its students to study in New Zealand at little cost. „Two years ago we first made contact with the Eastern Institute of Technology on New Zealand’s North Island “, relates Professor Dr Michael Lederer, Vice President for Internati...

Professor Dr. Oliver Ruf, newly appointed as professor to Furtwangen University’s Faculty of Digital Media, has published his latest book with Wehrhahn-Verlag, publishers of Hannover, Germany. The book is called „Schreibleben“ (writing life) and is an anthology containing literary portraits as well as essayist „attempts and cultural journalism reports. 

With this volume Mr Ru...

If you are studying computer science or business information systems at Furtwangen University, you will have excellent chances on the employment market. Business Information Systems is ranked fifth, Computer Science seventh amongst all German universities of applied sciences. „Which universities produce the best graduates?“ Wirtschaftswoche magazine asked and has published its university ran...

On 8th and 9th September 2012, Furtwangen stages the "Deutsche Hochschulmeisterschaft Mountainbike Marathon und Team
Relay" (Germany university championship) as part of the "Schwarzwald-Bike-Marathon". 

For the Team-Relay 4-person (including at least one female) university teams compete on a 3-4 km long cross-country course. The 60 km marathon-course i...

Furtwangen University (HFU) compares most favourably with its competitors. This is the result of the just published “International Student Barometer“ survey. The HFU is ranked first amongst all German universities. This ranking is arrived at considering outstanding individual marks for „learning“, „quality of lectures“, „life“ „support“, „work experience“ and „preparation for entry to the jo...

As of summer semester 2012, the first three Furtwangen University students begin to receive a Deutschlandstipendium. This funding programme was initiated by the German government to financially support particularly efficient students. Recipients receive a monthly stipend of 300 Euros for the minimum duration of one year. „The university can only award scholarships where we are able to attrac...

In January 2012, the project group which had been specifically put together for the HRK-Audit “Internationalisation of Universities“ met for its kick-off meeting on Schwenningen campus. The head of the HRK’s international department, Ms Marijke Wahlers and her colleague Sarah Karis presented the auditing procedure to the HFU’s project group. The project group consist of 16 members, representing al...

On Monday, 12th March, Furtwangen University welcomed its newly enrolled students with the traditional Erstsemester-Begrüßung (first semester greeting). Prof. Dr. Rolf Schofer, the university’s Rektor (president) welcomed a total of 580 freshmen, 391 in Furtwangen and 184 on Villingen-Schwenningen campus. Tuttlingen campus does not recruit to the summer semester. In total, Furtwangen University is...

Highly qualified computer scientists wanted!Furtwangen University's faculty of computer sciences (Fakultät Informatik) has just starteda new project mentoring students on their way to successful graduation even more extensively. 
The faculty's programmes have always been singled out through their outstanding and personal support and the intimate learning and teaching atmosphere. Since la...