University Life

In order to experience successful and happy years of study, do not forget the life around the university. This includes your time with friends before and after lectures, various student activities as well as cultural and evening events in Leipzig, but also the housing situation:

Studentenwerk Leipzig
Your student service provider in Leipzig

Soccer-playing robots by the Nao-Team of HTWK Leipzig

Student Activities
All about student projetcs and university groups

View at the tower of the new town hall in Leipzig in the late evening

Leipzig
A vibrant and dynamic city in central Germany

Housing
Student dorm or rather a single flat?

Campus Facts

Almost 40,000 students are enrolled at the universities in Leipzig. Around two-thirds study at Leipzig University, followed by Leipzig University of Applied Sciences with approximately 6,000 enrolled students (effective 2016).

21,410 cups of coffee were sold at the Mensa Academica (2015), which is situated in the Lipsius building on the HTWK Leipzig campus. In the same year Studentenwerk Leipzig states that the amount of 6,776 kilogram of pasta was sold. On peak days 1,200 people eat in our canteen.

Our gym, which can be reached in a couple of minutes by bike, isopen 76 hours a week during normal operation. Two organisations coordinate around 90 instructors.

At the university language centre, you can learn 5 different languages - respectively at different levels of educational requirement. There are also English courses especially for staff.

In total, we have 100 musicians in our two most melodious university groups: choir and orchestra.