University of Hildesheim

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University of Hildesheim
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim

Established	1978
Type	Public
Rector	Wolfgang-Uwe Friedrich
Faculty	3
Students	4,500
Location	Hildesheim, Germany
Website	www.uni-hildesheim.de/

The University of Hildesheim (in German Stiftung 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 4,500 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.