<p>I am half German and I speak German fluently. Does anyone have any experiences with German universities? Are there any universities in Germany that match the high quality universities if the United States? I am looking specifically into studying international affairs in school.</p>
<p>The very leading US universities are singular worldwide. Stanford spends more on research than any Germany university has as overall budget. CalTech has an unmateched rate of Nobel Prize winners. But the inventor of the TV and Soviet atomic bomb, Manfred von Ardenne, teached at my humble university.</p>
<p>Nevertheless Germany is not a development country. Striving for the best non-university institutions come into play. For example the Max Planck society is ranked as number 1 non-university institution worldwide in fundamental science by Times and number 3 in technology research based on peer review. They have won a lot of Nobel prizes, though less than the US. Recently we have not developed any (globally sucessful) Facebook or Google or Apple but SAP is the next big thing and Otto or Bertelsmann are kind of Amazons in stealth mode. ;-)</p>
<p>I don’t know every German university. </p>
<p>As a master in electrical engineering in English language I know
[TUD</a> - internationaler Master-Studiengang “Organic and Molecular Electronics” - Welcome](<a href=“http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_mathematik_und_naturwissenschaften/fachrichtung_physik/ome/index_html/document_view?set_language=en]TUD”>http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_mathematik_und_naturwissenschaften/fachrichtung_physik/ome/index_html/document_view?set_language=en)
The city of Dresden is singular European wide when it is about advanced electronics. Just saying we talk about absolute numbers in micro electronics (nano technology).</p>
<p>The detailed “CHE University Ranking 2012/13” sees TU Dresden in the lead in electronics and information technology.</p>
<p>International Beziehungen (deutsch, German language)</p>
<p>[TUD</a> - ZIS - School of International Studies at the University of Dresden](<a href=“http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/zentrale_einrichtungen/zis/index_html/document_view?set_language=en]TUD”>http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/zentrale_einrichtungen/zis/index_html/document_view?set_language=en)</p>
<p>At TU Dresden it is really hard to get in in this subject. German students normally need a 1.1 highschool diploma, which is rather extreme, but as we are keen to rise up our quota of foreign students (13.5%) you should try.</p>
<p>But don’t compare it with Harvard. Also not with Yale. It’s totally another world. The only Harvard conncection we can show-off is those with the Harvard medical school. As far as I know Dresden is their only German university conjunction in medizin, medicines. They somehow like our insane courage for new methods.</p>