Nürtingen-Geislingen University (NGU)

Shaping the future and honoring traditions

”Change is the only constant.“ There is hardly any statement that better illustrates the setting and substance of Nürtingen–Geislingen University. Since 1949 young people have been acquiring a sound and relevant tertiary education here, preparing them for propitious, lucrative, and prominent career opportunities. The winds of change have transformed this former college of agricultural engineering into an outstanding institution of higher education with a remarkable profile. Its academic programs are based on a solid undergraduate foundation comprising the essential subjects required by the respective profession. They are the engines driving the continuing attunement of academic course structure and content to meet the real-life needs of the business world. The university has been taking its chance to reform: All programs are now based on a Bachelor´s – Master´s degree structure and match the international requirements. Equal opportunities are as well part of the university’s profile. The university runs its own center for equal opportunity issues as a response to the changes in society. Business Economics, Law, Planning and the Environment are the key focal points targeted by the academic programs offered at Nürtingen–Geislingen University. Direct contact to the numerous large companies and multinationals as well as successful small businesses in the strong economic region of Stuttgart will always ensure the academic programs the University offers are based on applied business experience. All of its professors and lecturers come to the University with extensive and substantial business-management backgrounds.