The Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf is a public comprehensive university located in the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia. The medical academy tradition of Düsseldorf was officially founded in 1965 and today unites five faculties on a largely integrated campus: Medicine; Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Arts and Humanities; Business Administration and Economics; and Law. As of the winter semester 2025/26, the university’s facts report 29,046 students (including doctoral candidates and guest students), 57 percent of whom are women and 14 percent of whom are foreign nationals. The same institutional report indicates 92 study programs, 3,794 graduates in examination year 2024, and 605 doctorates completed in that year. Its live program directory has 96 rows; removing one exact duplicate title-and-degree row, this workbook has 95 unique catalogue pathways covering major, minor, integrative, state-examination, continuing-education and expiring variants.

HHU’s academic profile is interdisciplinary and not technically specialised. Its portfolio includes medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, psychology, economics, business, law, philosophy, languages, history, media, social sciences and regionally focused cultural study. In Faculty of Arts and Humanities several bachelor’s formats are applied: single-subject, major/minor and integrative. The university does not offer teaching degrees. At postgraduate level, it offers German, English and mixed-language master’s options, as well as fee-charging continuing-professional-development programs, which should be distinguished from regular consecutive master’s study.

Admission routes are assigned on a program-by-program basis. Applicants can choose between open admission, local selection, the Dialogue-oriented Service Procedure, nationwide restricted admission for regulated subjects or an aptitude assessment. German language skills are necessary for study in German and for dual major combinations with a subject taught in German. For all bachelor and state-examination courses of study as well as for some master courses of study in the Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Medical faculties, applicants from countries outside the EU have to submit their preliminary review documentation to uni-assist. The university does not offer conditional admission if required language or review evidence is outstanding.

The five faculties supervise doctoral research, which is not included in the regular taught-program catalogue. Candidates may pursue an individual doctorate with a professor or a structured program. Interdisciplinary information and development is managed by Heine Research Academies, while subject-specific training is offered by faculty graduate academies. Doctorates typically take three or four years, but it really depends on the research project, funding, dissertation, reviews, and defence.

There is no general tuition for regular students, but they are required to pay the semester contribution, which for winter semester 2026/27 is listed as €371.15. Continuing-education programs may charge separate course fees; as of now, they are €8,000 for Intellectual Property, €3,000 per semester for Medical Law, and €8,000 for the 120-credit Public Health program. CEDUS provides career support through application guidance, employer events, the campus fair, research careers, and entrepreneurship to connect students with their career paths. These include mobility or doctoral funding routes as well as the Deutschlandstipendium. This makes HHU especially attractive for students who want a wide choice of subjects, an academic environment in one campus and direct access to the civic, medical, cultural, legal and commercial institutions of Düsseldorf. Applicants should check the current status of each catalogue row as a separate pathway, because the same subject name may describe materially different degree structures.