{"id":70626,"date":"2022-07-21T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T07:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/?p=70626"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:23:44","slug":"best-universities-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"The top 5 universities in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":70627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9458],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe top 5 universities in Germany - Lingoda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Whether you are thinking about an exchange semester or planning for long-term study in Germany, here are some of the best universities.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The top 5 universities in Germany\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Whether you are thinking about an exchange semester or planning for long-term study in Germany, here are some of the best universities.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lingoda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lingoda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-21T07:24:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-20T08:23:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1077\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Leona Quigley\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@lingoda\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@lingoda\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Leona Quigley\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Leona Quigley\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/822762acdca10d103d5cef06fa4037c7\"},\"headline\":\"The top 5 universities in Germany\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-21T07:24:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-20T08:23:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/\"},\"wordCount\":1073,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Cultural topics for German learners\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/\",\"name\":\"The top 5 universities in Germany - Lingoda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-21T07:24:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-20T08:23:44+00:00\",\"description\":\"Whether you are thinking about an exchange semester or planning for long-term study in Germany, here are some of the best universities.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg\",\"width\":1077,\"height\":560,\"caption\":\"Humboldt university law building, one of the best universities in Germany\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cultural topics for German learners\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/category\/culture-learn-german-main\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"The top 5 universities in Germany\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Lingoda\",\"description\":\"The Online Language School\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Lingoda\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lingoda-logo_horizontal_standard_coloured.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lingoda-logo_horizontal_standard_coloured.svg\",\"width\":588,\"height\":193,\"caption\":\"Lingoda\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lingoda\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/lingoda\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/lingoda_official\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lingoda-gmbh\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC6AYbs_IpIj5uwwL_8PlVyw\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/822762acdca10d103d5cef06fa4037c7\",\"name\":\"Leona Quigley\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e424d7ded1352987491d174798f6be4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e424d7ded1352987491d174798f6be4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Leona Quigley\"},\"description\":\"Leona has her roots in the South of Ireland, where she grew up on her family farm. She went on to study World Politics at Leiden University College, The Hague and then completed her MPhil in International History at Trinity College Dublin. Leona has now settled in Berlin, having fallen in love with the city. In her spare time she is working on perfecting her German in anticipation of her doctoral studies, during which she plans to study modern German social history. Her hobbies include bouldering, dancing and reading a healthy mix of history books and corny fantasy fiction. You can find more info about her on LinkedIn.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/author\/leona-quigley\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The top 5 universities in Germany - Lingoda","description":"Whether you are thinking about an exchange semester or planning for long-term study in Germany, here are some of the best universities.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The top 5 universities in Germany","og_description":"Whether you are thinking about an exchange semester or planning for long-term study in Germany, here are some of the best universities.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/","og_site_name":"Lingoda","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lingoda","article_published_time":"2022-07-21T07:24:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-10-20T08:23:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1077,"height":560,"url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Leona Quigley","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@lingoda","twitter_site":"@lingoda","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Leona Quigley","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/"},"author":{"name":"Leona Quigley","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/822762acdca10d103d5cef06fa4037c7"},"headline":"The top 5 universities in Germany","datePublished":"2022-07-21T07:24:51+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-20T08:23:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/"},"wordCount":1073,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg","articleSection":["Cultural topics for German learners"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/","name":"The top 5 universities in Germany - Lingoda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg","datePublished":"2022-07-21T07:24:51+00:00","dateModified":"2025-10-20T08:23:44+00:00","description":"Whether you are thinking about an exchange semester or planning for long-term study in Germany, here are some of the best universities.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/best-universities-germany-scaled-e1658388238889.jpg","width":1077,"height":560,"caption":"Humboldt university law building, one of the best universities in Germany"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/best-universities-germany\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cultural topics for German learners","item":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/category\/culture-learn-german-main\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The top 5 universities in Germany"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/","name":"Lingoda","description":"The Online Language School","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Lingoda","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lingoda-logo_horizontal_standard_coloured.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lingoda-logo_horizontal_standard_coloured.svg","width":588,"height":193,"caption":"Lingoda"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lingoda","https:\/\/x.com\/lingoda","https:\/\/instagram.com\/lingoda_official","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lingoda-gmbh","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC6AYbs_IpIj5uwwL_8PlVyw"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/822762acdca10d103d5cef06fa4037c7","name":"Leona Quigley","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e424d7ded1352987491d174798f6be4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e424d7ded1352987491d174798f6be4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Leona Quigley"},"description":"Leona has her roots in the South of Ireland, where she grew up on her family farm. She went on to study World Politics at Leiden University College, The Hague and then completed her MPhil in International History at Trinity College Dublin. Leona has now settled in Berlin, having fallen in love with the city. In her spare time she is working on perfecting her German in anticipation of her doctoral studies, during which she plans to study modern German social history. Her hobbies include bouldering, dancing and reading a healthy mix of history books and corny fantasy fiction. You can find more info about her on LinkedIn.","url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/author\/leona-quigley\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84802,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70626\/revisions\/84802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}