Welcome to the HafenCity University Hamburg!

The HafenCity University Hamburg — the University Of The Built Environment And Metropolitan Development (HCU) — is the only university of its kind in Europe. The education and research at the HCU Hamburg are aimed are contemplating and concretising what the future of metropolitan areas could and should look like. Coping with this future will, however, require a systematic interdisciplinary as well as transdisciplinary approach. For this reason, the HCU offers the entire range of disciplines required for understanding and designing the urban environment:

• Architecture, Civil Engineering, Geomatics, Urban Planning – in each case as a Bachelor’s degree with the option to continue studying to obtain a Master’s degree
• Metropolitan Culture – as a bachelor programme
• Urban Design and Resource Efficiency in Architecture and Planning (REAP) – as interdisciplinary Master’s degrees

Professorships, institutes and departments were done away with at the HCU in order to be able to achieve our special education and research objectives. Since October 1, 2008, education and research are organised into, in each case, a Bachelor, Master and Research School. 

In this connection, there are two important aspects:

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