Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

About Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is the only Catholic university in the German-speaking world and one of over 200 Catholic universities worldwide. With 5,033 students, including 840 university of applied sciences students (winter semester 2021/22), it is one of the largest non-state universities in Germany. The university offers nearly 70 bachelor's and master's degree programs. The central campus is in Eichstätt; the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics with 905 students is located in Ingolstadt. Predecessors of the foundation university, founded in 1980, included a lyceum founded in Eichstätt in 1843, which was renamed "Philosophical-Theological University" in 1924, and the Eichstätt University of Education, founded in 1958, both of which were merged into the Eichstätt University of Applied Sciences in 1972. The University of Applied Sciences was the first comprehensive non-state scientific university in the Federal Republic.