University of Hildesheim

Infobox University
name=University of Hildesheim
native_name=Universität Hildesheim


latin_name=
established=1978
type=Public
staff=
rector=Wolfgang-Uwe Friedrich
faculty=3
students=4,500
city=Hildesheim
country=Germany
campus=
affiliations=
website= [http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/ www.uni-hildesheim.de/]

The University of Hildesheim (in German "Universität Hildesheim") was founded in 1978. Its main faculties are educational and social sciences, cultural sciences and aesthetic communications, and information- and communication sciences. Faculty of With currently around 5000 students enrolled, this university is considerably smaller than, for example, the University of Hannover with around 25,000 students enrolled.

Especially innovative fields of studies like International Informationmanagement, International Professional Communication and International Communication and Translation helped the university to be more attractive for international students.

U. o. H. has, like very few other German universities, become a foundation under public law (German: Stiftungsuniversität) on January 1, 2003.

Faculties

The university currently has three faculties:

*Faculty of Educational and Social Sciences
*Faculty of Cultural Sciences and Esthetical Communication
*Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences

ee also

* List of colleges and universities
* Hildesheim

External links

* [http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/ University of Hildesheim Website] de icon en icon