PFH – University for Careers

The PFH Private University of Applied Sciences is the oldest private, state-recognised university in Lower-Saxony – the 2nd largest state of Germany. Currently about 3,300 students are enrolled in one of the 17 study programmes in Management, Engineering Sciences, Psychology and Business Psychology or in Healthcare Technology. They study either at one of the three campus locations in Göttingen, Stade or Berlin or at one of the distance-learning centres located across Germany and Austria.

As a university run on entrepreneurial lines, the training of entrepreneurial new blood is an essential cornerstone of the PFH’s orientation. The activities pertaining to this topic area are concentrated in the Centre for Entrepreneurship. Imparting entrepreneurship content or an ability to act entrepreneurially as a key qualification cuts across all the PFH’s departments.

Through its Board of Trustees and its more than 500 partner companies, the university has excellent links to business throughout Germany and, particularly in the regions of Göttingen und Stade, is embedded in a largely SME-oriented company environment. Entrepreneurial thinking is also reflected in the student body, in the form, for example, of a large percentage of students who specify setting up on their own as a career goal or already come from an entrepreneurial family background.