Learn German in Göttingen, the university town in the heart of Germany

Göttingen is a typical German university town in the centre of Germany. With its 130 000 inhabitants and 28 000 students it is open minded and enjoys an international flair. It offers a rich cultural life and a much bigger variety of nightlife than other cities of this size. It is a young city and it is easy to make friends.

The enchanting mediaeval town of Göttingen is located in an area of central Germany where the purest «High German» is spoken. This makes Göttingen the ideal place to study German.

Not only in school but also when eating dinner with your host family or buying food in a supermarket, you can be sure that you will hear only perfect German free of any regional accents or dialectical colouring.

Due to its location in the heart of Germany Göttingen is the ideal place to go for a weekend trip to any other town of interest in Germany such as Weimar, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne or Munich.

You have got the opportunity to study in a town where it is a short distance from your accommodation to school. There are pubs, restaurants, discotheques, theatres, and a lot of interesting places to go and you can also discover different faces of Germany in all parts of the city.

German with a kiss

Göttingen's chief landmark is the Gänseliesel, known as the most kissed girl in the world. When students receive their doctorates at the University of Göttingen, they climb the fountain on which the statue stands in order to plant a kiss upon the face of Göttingen's own totem goose girl. To participate in traditional habits like this makes a stay in Göttingen unique and an unforgettable experience.