Germany

Founded at the request of Count Palatine Rupert I with papal approval, Heidelberg is Germany's oldest university. Its student pris...

Founded in Ingolstadt and moved twice, LMU settled in Munich in 1826 under King Ludwig I. Max Planck studied and later taught near...

Wilhelm von Humboldt's 1810 founding of Berlin University invented the model uniting teaching and research that every modern unive...

King Ludwig II founded the polytechnic school that became TUM, now Germany's top-ranked technical university. Carl von Linde, prof...

Founded as a polytechnic in Aachen after the Franco-Prussian war began, RWTH grew into Germany's biggest technical university with...

Charite opened in 1710 as a quarantine house for plague victims north of Berlin's walls, becoming a teaching hospital for the army...