The establishment of the University of Ulm in 1967, which focuses on biomedicine, the sciences, and engineering, helped support a transition to high-tech industry, especially after the crisis of classical industries in the 1980s.
== Gospodarstvo ==Mesto ima zelo staro trgovsko tradicijo, ki sega od srednjeveških časov in dolge zgodovine industrializacije, ki se začne z izgradnjo železniške postaje leta 1850.