Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Leuphana University of Lüneburg addresses the challenges of civil society in the 21st century. The bodies responsible for these initiatives are the faculties newly established in 2010: Education , Culture , Business und Sustainability . There are research topics spanning multiple faculties – in keeping with developments of current and future relevance – devoted to the Democracy, Digital Media and Health.

Companion to the substantive quality of the curriculum, Leuphana places particular reliance on students' responsibility, curiosity and initiative, on a broad-ranging change in perspective that questions presumably settled knowledge, and on dialogue not only among the various disciplines but between science and practice. The course of study follows a degree model unique to the German higher-education landscape, a model that has already received multiple awards.

In the course of its reorganization in 2007, Leuphana introduced a university model unique within the German academic landscape. By spring 2009 the following new academic schools had been established - with a college at which students can obtain their first academic degree, the graduate school that offers master's programs with specialization in the fields of Arts & Sciences, Management & Entrepreneurship and Education, and the professional school that offers bachelor's, master's and certificate programs for continiung education.