Summer Courses at Heinrich Heine University: Four Weeks Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Four weeks of German. A summer on the Rhine.

In the morning, you're in class. At lunch, you're in the university cafeteria with students from all over the world. In the afternoon, you're standing beneath the Richter window in Cologne Cathedral – and in the evening, you order your first Altbier in the Old Town. In German, of course.

That's August at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Summer School. You learn with our German as a Foreign Language department – the same teachers who prepare international students for degree courses in Germany. Whether you're starting from zero (A1) or polishing your C1, what you learn in the morning, you'll use in the afternoon.

Your course

• Four weeks: classes 3—27 August 2027, 80 lessons + approx. 20 hours of cultural programme and excursions, 4 ECTS
• Two weeks: classes 3—13 August 2027, 40 lessons + approx. 10 hours of cultural programme and excursions, 2 ECTS
• Classes: Monday to Friday, 9:00–10:30 and 11:00–12:40 (first week Tuesday to Friday)
• Groups: max. 20 participants per course; placement by online test before the course
• Certificate: certificate of attendance; ECTS credits for regular attendance and passing the tests during the course

The price includes the following: course fee, certificate, Wi-Fi access, and organisation of the excursion programme.

For participants requiring accommodation, a limited combined option is available for 1,575 EUR, covering tuition and a single apartment in a student residence.

Students of all subjects (for DAAD scholarship holders and privately funded students)

There are several cafeterias and bistros in the university buildings where you can purchase beverages and snacks. Lunch is also served in the student canteens.

After class, we head out - our excursion programme

Follow the night watchman through the lanes of medieval Kaiserswerth as he unlocks gates that usually stay shut. Go behind the scenes at the WDR broadcasting studios, then out to Frank Gehry's crooked towers in the Media Harbour. Race your team from Little Tokyo to the Königsallee in our city rally, walk through the gilded halls of Benrath Palace – and find out in the Old Town's brewery pubs why locals call it “the longest bar in the world”.

All this was on the 2026 programme – and 2027 will be just as varied. For every excursion, places are limited, so first come, first served.