Editing Kassel (section)

== Education and research ==
[[File:Uni-Kassel-Diagonale.JPG|thumb|[[University of Kassel]]]]

=== University of Kassel ===
The [[University of Kassel]] is a public higher education institution and was founded in 1971 as a so-called reform university. It is the newest university in the state of [[Hessen]] and has an urban inner-city campus between the city center and the Northern city district. There were around 25,000 students enrolled at the university in 2018, 3,359 of them non-Germans.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jahresbericht 2018 der Universität Kassel erschienen |url=https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/en/aktuelles/sitemap-detail-news/2019/07/03/jahresbericht-2018-der-universitaet-kassel-erschienen?cHash=da44507b5bff1004e8ada58fb0a18b78 |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=www.uni-kassel.de |language=en-US}}</ref> Two hundred and twenty-four students obtained their doctorate from the university in 2017.

The university offers a range of study programs, and several English master's programs as well as two short-term international programs, the [[International Summer University (ISU) Kassel|Summer University]] and the [[International Winter University (IWU) Kassel|Winter University]]. The [[Kunsthochschule Kassel]] (University of Fine Arts) is also part of the university with a satellite campus directly at the Karlsaue park in the Southern city district.

=== Other institutions ===

* Kassel School of Medicine (KSM)
* YMCA University of Applied Sciences (CVJM-Hochschule)
* Fraunhofer-Institut für Energiewirtschaft und Energiesystemtechnik (IEE)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.iee.fraunhofer.de/en.html |website=www.iee.fraunhofer.de |access-date=13 March 2025 |title=Fraunhofer IEE }}</ref>
* Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik (IBP) Projektgruppe Kassel
* Forschungszentrum für Informationstechnik-Gestaltung (ITeG)
* International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uni-kassel.de/einrichtungen/icdd/home.html |title=ICDD: Home |access-date=2015-02-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211110519/http://www.uni-kassel.de/einrichtungen/icdd/home.html |archive-date=2015-02-11 }}</ref>
* Internationales Zentrum für Hochschulforschung Kassel (INCHER)
* Zentrum für Umweltbewusstes Bauen (ZUB)
* Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT)
* AG Friedensforschung