We recommend you leave your car on one of the parking lots at North Campus and use the H-Bahn suspended monorail system , which conveniently connects the two campuses. From Dortmund Central Station, you can continue to the university campus by interurban railway S-Bahn. There are two stations on North Campus. The other station is located at the dining hall at North Campus and offers a direct connection to South Campus every five minutes. Additionally, some areas of the university are located in the adjacent "Technologiepark".
Whether dormitory, shared flat or your own apartment: here you will find information about the Dortmund housing market and an overview of contact points for a successful apartment search. Around , inhabitants make Dortmund a vibrant metropolis in the middle of the Ruhr area, where more than 55, young people study — more than in the student city of Heidelberg, for example. Source: Moses Mendelssohn Institute German only. Places in student dormitories are particularly popular: The Studierendenwerk Dortmund allocates over 2, places in ten residential complexes in Dortmund and four residential complexes in the region — from single rooms to four-person shared flats.
Since the demand is very high, an early application is recommended. In addition, the Studierendenwerk Dortmund offers barrier-free accommodation for people with disabilities and guest apartments for university lecturers who are in Dortmund for a short-term stay.
The Studierendenwerk offers further information on the subject of housing and the individual residential complexes. If you are unable to find a place in a dormitory, you can look for rooms in shared flats or apartments on real estate platforms and housing exchanges on the Internet, as well as in daily newspapers. For example, the Klinikviertel and Kreuzviertel neighborhoods in the south as well as the Kaiserviertel district in the eastern part of the city are popular with students.
In the less expensive north, many apartments have been renovated to make them suitable for shared flats, and the neighborhood is characterized by a lively cultural scene, urban pubs and interculturality.
