Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care

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Leadership

Dr. Ina Czyborra, Senator for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care

Dr. Henry Marx, Permanent Secretary for Higher Education and Research

International outlook

Berlin is international. And so are higher education and research. International students, PhD candidates, junior scientists, and professors find excellent research and teaching here, and there is extensive collaboration between the countless and diverse university and non-university institutions

Integration of refugees

Berlin is a very diverse city in which people of different worldviews, cultural backgrounds, origins, and religions live together and study together. Information for refugees who might want to enroll in a college or university is available here.

Recognition of academic degrees and titles earned abroad

Have you earned an academic degree abroad and would like to know whether the degree is recognized in Germany or whether you can use your academic title here?

Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care Departments Higher Education and Research

Warschauer Str. 41/42
10243 Berlin

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Berlin has one of the largest concentrations of higher education and research institutions in Europe. People from all over the world teach, do research, work, and study at our four universities, the Charité – Universitätsmedizin medical school, art colleges, private colleges, and universities of applied sciences, as well as at our many non-university research institutes.