The New Town Hall tower in the Leipzig city centre, with green trees in the foreground

Studying in Leipzig

Leipzig offers you 32 degree programmes in English at 11 higher education institutions.

„I praise my Leipzig.” With this quote from Goethe’s Faust I, the trade fair city welcomes all visitors. And Leipzig, labelled Hypezig for a while, is booming: students love the city for its diverse cultural scene, comparatively low rents, the book fair, the many museums, the hinterland’s lakes and much more. Better hurry up though, Leipzig is trending so much that the times of low living costs could be gone soon.

Although Dresden is the capital of the federal state of Saxony, the largest city in the state is Leipzig. It has been growing continuously since 1999 and there is no reversal in sight. No wonder!

Although prefabricated high-rise buildings – typical for the GDR – can be found in Leipzig, as in almost every eastern German city, they do not dominate the cityscape here. On the contrary: Leipzig has many imposing buildings, and not only in the city centre. Even the outlying districts are impressive with streets of mostly renovated Wilhelminian-style houses. You can still find a room in these houses relatively cheaply in Leipzig, even though rents have risen significantly in recent years. You may have to make a few concessions in terms of proximity to the city centre and consider neighbourhoods that are a bit further out as well.

And Leipzig is green: you can relax wonderfully in the Auwald with the famous zoo or in Johannapark and Clara-Zetkin-Park near the city centre. On hot summer days, you can cycle directly from the latter through a green forest to Lake Cospuden, which was created more than 20 years ago in a former open-cast mining area. Don't have a bike? Then take the bus - public transport in Leipzig consists of a dense network of S-Bahn, tram and bus lines. Right in the city centre and easy to reach is Leipzig’s main train station. This is the largest terminus station in Europe in terms of floorspace and has a shopping mall where many shops are also open on Sundays - which is not very common in Germany.

Life in Leipzig

616,000 residents

High-speed train connections
In close vicinity
International airport
In close vicinity
Coast
Baltic Sea in 300 km distance
Mountain range
Ore Mountains in 100 km distance
Other countries
Czech Republic in 160 km distance
Attractions within 100 km
- Monument to the Battle of the Nations in 5 km distance
- Neuseenland, artificial lake district in 9 km distance
- St. Nicholas Church in close vicinity

Study in Leipzig

11 higher education institutions in Leipzig

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Subject groups of degree programmes in Leipzig

There is a wide range of degree programmes in Leipzig. Here you can see the main subject groups. Currently, degree programmes in Leipzig are mainly offered in the subject group Teaching Degrees, followed by Art, Music, Design and Language and Cultural Studies. Find out more information here about the subject groups and degree programmes offered in Germany.

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Agricultural and Forest Sciences
34
Humanities and Social Sciences
43
Mathematics, Natural Sciences
82
Art, Music, Design
77
Language and Cultural Studies
8
Medicine, Health Sciences
57
Economic Sciences, Law
28
Engineering Sciences
95
Teaching Degrees

Canoe on the Karl Heine Canal, surrounded by lush greenery

Plagwitz: once used for industry, now chic lofts and hip restaurants on the waterfront.

In the reading room of the German National Library, you can work through every book published since 1913 in Germany.

There are several higher education institutions in Leipzig and a whole range of research institutes, including the Max Planck and Leibniz Institutes. In addition, large companies and start-ups have settled in Leipzig, offering you good opportunities for a part-time job or employment after your studies.

Are you interested in contemporary history? Then head for the Museum in der "Runden Ecke" or the "Zeitgeschichtliches Forum". Both institutions specialise in the GDR past, an important part of the city's history. After all, the famous Monday demonstrations took place in Leipzig, which contributed to the collapse of the GDR.

Are you more of an art buff? Then visit the Museum of Fine Arts in the city centre and don't miss the Baumwollspinnerei in the Lindenau district. Here you'll find lots of galleries and studios, including those of Neo Rauch, probably the best-known representative of the New Leipzig School.

Music enthusiasts visit the Gewandhaus or the opera or listen to the concerts of the famous St Thomas's Boys Choir, which is dedicated to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Incidentally, Bach spent his main creative period in Leipzig.

But don't worry: the city doesn't only offer high culture, you can also go out and party! There are cafés, pubs, clubs and cinemas in all kinds of different corners and neighbourhoods, so feel free to try out different ones: Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, affectionately known as KarLi, in Südvorstadt and Connewitz with alternative student pubs and clubs; Barfussgässchen in the city centre with its rather chic bars and restaurants and many tourists; Gottschedstraße in the Schauspielviertel or Karl-Heine-Straße in the trendy district of Plagwitz, where you can also find several well-known locations for concerts, readings and much more. This list could be continued endlessly. And at Pentecost, thousands of black and artfully dressed people suddenly wander through the city: that's when the Wave-Gothik-Treffen takes place, a festival with venues all over the city and around 20,000 visitors.

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