Located in the south of Stuttgart, the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart’s oldest University founded in 1818. Agricultural and natural sciences have been the traditional primary areas of specializations of the University.

The three main faculties at the University are – Agricultural Science, Natural Sciences and Business, Economics, and Social sciences. They provide degrees ranging from Bachelors’s to Masters’s and Ph.D. programs.

Degrees are offered in English, and student exchange programs with institutions around the world are highly encouraged, including universities in the United States, Australia, and Singapore. This enables the students to gain more experience about how the world operates and gain more skills and abilities as well as learn about the various cultures of the world.

The Hohenheim campus is home to three museums – the German Agricultural Museum, History of Hohenheim Museum, and the Zoology and Veterinary Museum. The country’s history of farming is detailed in The German Agricultural Museum. At the same time, the collections related to the town, palace, and the University are housed inside the History of Hohenheim Museum. Several Biological and medical curiosities can be seen inside the Zoology and Veterinary Museum. These museums are open to the general public, and they also have a collection of curiosities on display in a traditional exhibition in the palace along with various teaching aids.

While undergraduate courses are usually taught in German, postgraduate courses are also taught in English. The Ars Legendi Prize for excellence in teaching and other awards have been awarded to the Hohenheim university for its research-oriented studying profile. Bioeconomy is a joint specialization of teaching and research in all subjects. It is about the economics of the future, made of raw material from plants, animals, or microorganisms, with new products and new production processes.

The Hohenheim Palace is named to be the most beautiful campus of the state because of the green campus of short distance all around the palace.

The departments and courses offered at the University of Hohenheim are as follows: –

1. Business & Management 
   • Double Master’s Degree Programme in Management
   • Master of Science in International Business and Economics (IBE)
2. Engineering & Technology 
   • Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics (AgriTropics)
   • Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production (EnviroFood)
   • Environmental Science – Soil, Water and Biodiversity (EnvEuro)
3. Environment & Agriculture 
   • Agricultural Economics (AgEcon)
   • Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics (AgriTropics)
   • Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production (EnviroFood)
   • Environmental Science – Soil, Water and Biodiversity (EnvEuro)
   • Organic Agriculture and Food Systems (EUR-Organic)
4. Medicine & Health 
   • Food Biotechnology
   • Food Science and Engineering
   • Organic Agriculture and Food Systems (EUR-Organic)
5. Natural Sciences & Mathematics
   • Crop Sciences
   • Landscape Ecology (LandEcol)
6. Social Sciences 
   • Agricultural Economics (AgEcon)
   • Earth and Climate System Science
   • Master of Science in Bioeconomy
   • Master of Science in Economics

Some of the fields in which the University pursues research are health, agriculture, environmental protection, nutrition, consumer protection as well as communication and economics.

Important topics include:

1. Agricultural and nutritional sciences within the food chain
2. Biobased products and bioenergy from agriculture
3. Biological signals
4. Bioeffect research Biofector
5. Innovation and services