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Universität Leipzig was founded in 1409 and is thus the second oldest university in Germany where teaching has continued without interruption. Today it offers a wide spectrum of academic disciplines at 14 faculties with more than 150 institutes. From A for African Studies to W for West Slavic Studies, Universität Leipzig is a classic university with the whole range of subjects from natural sciences through law, human and veterinary medicine to numerous arts degrees. 28,000 young people from all over the world are currently studying on more than 140 courses. A variety of co-operation programmes with foreign partner universities and an internationally oriented choice of subjects make Leipzig attractive for students world-wide. The University has exchange programmes with over 350 ERASMUS partner universities in some 150 European cities and with more than 60 universities outside Europe.

For generations, the University of Mannheim has been preparing students to take on leadership roles in business, academia, and society. One of the university’s strengths in this task is its profile, which is characterized by the economic and social sciences. It is in these fields that the University of Mannheim has repeatedly been ranked as one of the top 20 European research institutions. Staff members at six schools and departments teach and carry out research in Business Administration, Economics, the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, and Business Informatics and Mathematics. The University of Mannheim's campus is located in the city center of Mannheim and mainly centers around its main campus – the Mannheim Palace (completed in 1760). The university has around 12,000 full-time students, 200 professors, 840 academic and 570 non-academic staff and a total income of more than €123 million in 2018. It is organized into 6 schools.