The University of Hildesheim (in German Universität Hildesheim) was founded in 1978. Its main faculties are educational and social sciences, cultural sciences and aesthetic communications, and information- and communication sciences. With currently around 5000 students enrolled, this university is relatively small. Especially innovative fields of studies like International Informationmanagement, International Professional Communication and International Communication and Translation helped the university to be more attractive for international students. U. o. H. has, like very few other German universities, become a foundation under public law (German: Stiftungsuniversität) on January 1, 2003.
