Reasons in favour of Ostfalia

In small study groups, you will benefit from intensive personal dialogue with other students and experienced teaching staff.

The scale-up rooms at our university locations and the services offered by the Centre for Successful Teaching and Learning ensure a pleasant study atmosphere and diverse contacts between lecturers and students.

Every year, Ostfalia awards the university's teaching prize for the most innovative and best courses.

The courses at Ostfalia are directly related to practice - you will get to know numerous companies and organisations and can make important contacts for your future working life.

One example of this is the annual symposia at which Ostfalia students are invited to engage in dialogue with stakeholders from business, society and research. There is also the student-organised career fair "Expect!" as well as excursions and final theses with partner companies of the university.

A future-oriented study programme offers you excellent opportunities on the way to your individual career goals.

A lot is happening at Ostfalia in the field of sustainable mobility and digitalisation. Since 2020, for example, there has been an endowed professorship for bicycle traffic from the Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport as well as special digitalisation professorships - including a professorship for digitalisation and new mobility since 2022.

Other examples of sustainable study programmes include Green Engineering and Digital Technologies.

However, applied research and close collaboration with the university's practice partners also ensure that the course content is future-oriented in all other areas of study.

Special qualification and counselling offers support you in successfully mastering your studies and career entry with the right soft skills.

Ostfalia's learning coaches, for example, are on hand to help you with personal and study-related challenges.

The Career Service team helps you to further develop your qualities as a problem solver and team player with interdisciplinary seminars in the area of "key qualifications".

If you would like support with academic writing, the Schreibwerkstatt is the right place for you.

An open and lively campus culture that you can help shape.

Co-creation is a top priority at Ostfalia, diversity is lived and valued. This applies both to student-organised offers for refugees and to events such as the Campus Open-Air, where the university's Musikschmiede (external link, opens in a new window) provides live music.

Within the student self-administration, numerous departments, such as the Ecology and Sports Departments, offer a wide range of opportunities to get involved on campus outside of regular courses, depending on your interests.