With currently around 4,500 students enrolled, this university is considerably smaller than, for example, the University of Hannover with around 25,000 students enrolled.
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.
