Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

The courses differ from very interesting and helpful for the studies to boring and not very well prepared. The quality of teachers also ranges in those categories. They have a good library where you can find almost any book required for your university needs. The two language courses I visited differed strongly in quality, so you better inform yourself, which language you are actually able to acquire at the end, and which course you are just wasting your time with. The institute itself is quite a small one, which means the interaction with professors and fellow students is easy.

The master programme covers a wide range of topics: from intellectual history to social governance, even art history and museum studies. Interested parties can study in the focus that suits them most. In the third semester, students get to do study exchange or internship to enrich their studies or aid their thesis research, which is quite a practical approach.