Osnabrück has a relatively new academic history: the high education institution was established in 1974. Before that, the most prestigious educational center was since 1632 the Gymnasium Carolinum. Nowadays, with its 13,500 students from all over Germany and abroad, it is considered a prestigious university center in Lower Saxony area.
The architecture style combines the classical, well-tempered bourgeois balance of volumes characteristic for the most part of the historical building with some bold, white and steal very modern buildings. The main offices are hosted in the baroque castle, but the majority of the classes are held in modern classrooms. Among the specialities studied here are: Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Business Administration and Economics. One of the famous students of the university is the former German president Christian Wulff.
The university staff comprises 209 professors and more than 900 additional academic personnel. As a first time traveler in Osnabrück, I noticed how much life the young people, reading or carrying books on the old cobblestone streets bring to the city. Either staying in the grass and discussing or solitarily reading or talking to each other, the students bring dynamism to the city and make everything around them feel and look young.
