page_title: Baden-Württemberg
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Baden-Württemberg / Education
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Altes Hauptportal, Hauptgebäude des Polytechnikums in Karlsruhe (heute TH Karlsruhe), von Heinrich Hübsch entworfen und 1833-35 gebaut. English: Old main entrance to the main building at the Polytechnicum in Karlsruhe (today: the Technical University), designed by Heinrich Hübsch and built 1833-36.
context_page_description: Baden-Württemberg is a state in southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the border with France. It is Germany's both third-largest, with an area of 35,751 km² and third-most populous state with more than 11 million inhabitants. Baden-Württemberg is a parliamentary republic and partly sovereign, federated state which was formed in 1952 by a merger of the states of Württemberg-Baden, South Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. The largest city in Baden-Württemberg is the state capital of Stuttgart, followed by Karlsruhe and Mannheim. Other cities are Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Pforzheim, Reutlingen, Tübingen and Ulm.
  The sobriquet Ländle is sometimes used as a synonym for Baden-Württemberg.
context_section_description: Baden-Württemberg is home to some of the oldest, most renowned, and prestigious universities in Germany, such as the universities of Heidelberg (founded in 1386, the oldest university within the territory of modern Germany), Freiburg (founded in 1457), and Tübingen (founded in 1477). It also contains three of the eleven German 'excellence universities' (Heidelberg, Tübingen, and Konstanz and formerly, Freiburg and Karlsruhe).
  Other university towns are Mannheim and Ulm. Furthermore, two universities are located in the state capital Stuttgart, the University of Hohenheim, and the University of Stuttgart. Ludwigsburg is home to the renowned national film school Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg). The private International University in Germany was situated in Bruchsal, but closed in 2009. There is still another private university, located in Friedrichshafen, Zeppelin University.
  Furthermore, there are more than a dozen Fachhochschulen, i.e., universities of applied sciences, as well as Pädagogische Hochschulen, i.e., teacher training colleges, and other institutions of tertiary education in Baden-Württemberg. (a.o. in Aalen, Biberach an der Riss, Esslingen, Karlsruhe, Ludwigsburg, Nürtingen, Pforzheim, Ravensburg-Weingarten, Reutlingen, several in Stuttgart, Schwäbisch Hall). Pforzheim University is one of the oldest Fachhochschulen in Germany which is renowned and highly ranked for its Engineering and MBA programs.
  The state has the highest density of academic institutions of any territorial state (i.e., excluding the city states of Berlin and Hamburg) in Germany.
caption: The University of Karlsruhe. Since 2009, it has been known as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
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