HAW Hamburg is one of Germany’s largest universities of applied sciences, with four multidisciplinary faculties – Engineering & Computer Science, Life Sciences, Design, Media & Information, and Business & Social Sciences – and 16.000 students enrolled in the summer semester 2024, 18.5 % of whom come from outside Germany. The teaching body comprises 391 professors and more than 400 research staff, supported by extensive technical and administrative teams.
The university’s practice-oriented approach blends applied research with hands-on laboratory work, internships and close links to industry across the Hamburg metropolitan region. HAW Hamburg’s digitalisation strategy positions the university as a key partner for business, society and policymakers in Northern Germany. Across teaching, research and transfer, the university addresses both the technological and the social dimensions of digital change, developing application-oriented solutions and embedding digital competencies in every programme.
The Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science – the university’s largest faculty with over five thousand students – integrates AI, data science and machine-learning topics from the first semesters onward. English-language elective tracks such as Data Science and Artificial Intelligence expose students to neural networks, deep-learning methods and AI ethics. As part of the HAW Hamburg 2030 strategy, the current four-faculty structure will be replaced by nine new faculties. Among them is a new Faculty of Computer Science and Digital Society, which will unite and expand the university’s computer-science and information-management programmes and further strengthen its focus on digitalisation and AI.
