Past press releases

This semester there are 11,588 students studying on campus: 200 fewer than last year. Despite this reduction in the overall figure, there has been a rise in the number of international students and in the number of…

President Carola Jungwirth succeeds former President Burkhard Freitag, whose four-year term of office ended on 31 March. The inauguration ceremony will take place in the main lecture theatre (lecture theatre 10; Audimax…

As of October 2016, the University of Passau will, every semester, welcome three new students from Amirkabir University of Technology to study the Master's programme in Computer Science. This is part of a partnership…

Juan Alejandro Tobías, Rector of Universidad del Salvador, hands the certificates for students who have earned their degrees under the first agreement to Ursula Reutner, Vice President for International Relations of the University of Passau.

Students enrolled in the B.A. International Cultural and Business Studies will be glad to learn that they will continue to be able to spend one year of their studies at Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires and earn a…

Charles Gleyre, 'The Romans Passing Under the Yoke', oil on canvas, 1858

History is written by the victors – but where there's victory, there's also defeat. The aspect of being defeated is the subject of a new historical research project which began this winter semester, titled 'Suffer,…

Past press releases

11,588 students in summer semester 2016; proportion of international students rises above eight percent

The University has a new President: inauguration ceremony on 15 April

Student exchange between Passau and Tehran funded by the DAAD

ICBS double degree programme with Buenos Aires renewed

DFG-funded project examines how ancient Rome coped with military defeat