The University of Potsdam - A Portrait
Structure
One University - Three Locations
Embedded in Potsdam's unique cultural landscape, in close proximity to the Prussian Palaces and Gardens, the still relatively new University of Potsdam has established itself at three locations.
"Due to a sensible arrangement of our faculties,
Potsdam has developed three unique university
campuses whose enormous appeal attracts
extramural institutes and businesses."
Dr. Barbara Obst-Hantel,
University Chancellor
Photo: K. Fritze
University Complex I - Am Neuen Palais
Photo: Th. Roese
The university's main campus, which includes the Auditorium Maximum, is situated in the immediate proximity of Park Sanssouci.
The Communs - the prestigious annexes of the New Palace are home to some of the institutes of the Faculty of Arts.
The eighteenth century baroque buildings, which disguise their former purpose as the Palace's offices and service rooms with
staircases, porticos, cupolas, and rich ornamentation, are currently home to the university's presidential office and administration.
The Institutes of Sports Science and Sports Medicine as well as the Institute for Mathematics can be found on the Campus Am Neuen Palais.
University Complex II - Golm
Photo: K. Fritze
Most institutes of the Faculty of Science as well as the Human Sciences Faculty are located in Potsdam-Golm,
where state-of-the-art research facilities and architecturally intriguing buildings form one of the largest science parks in the region.
Three Max Planck Institutes and two Fraunhofer Institutes as well as the start-up center GO:IN have already settled here.
University Complex III - Griebnitzsee
Photo: K. Fritze
Campus Griebnitzsee is situated along the city border with Berlin, not far from the famous Babelsberg film studios,
and houses the Law Faculty and the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. The Institute of Computer Sciences
is also located here and benefits greatly from its proximity to the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering,
a completely privately funded co-institute of the University of Potsdam.
