Education-
The Berlin capital region is one of Europe's most prolific centers of higher education and research. With four universities, numerous private, professional and technical colleges (Fachhochschulen), offering students a wide range of disciplines.

Around 140,000 students attend the universities and professional or technical colleges. The three largest universities alone account for around 110,000 students. These are the Freie Universitat Berlin (Free University of Berlin) with 40,840 students, the Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin with 36,423 students, and the Technische Universitat Berlin with 31,547 students. The Universitat der Kunste has about 4,300 students.


Statue of the founder of Alexander von Humboldt.

The city has a high concentration of research institutions, such as Fraunhofer -, and Max Planck Society, which are independent of, or only loosely connected to its universities. A total number of 62,000 scientists are working in research and development.

In addition to the libraries affiliated with the various universities, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is a major research library. It has two main locations, one near Potsdamer Platz on Potsdamer Straße and one on Unter den Linden. There are 108 public libraries to be found in the city.

Berlin has 878 schools teaching 340,658 children in 13,727 classes (for 2004/2005) and 56,787 trainees in businesses and elsewhere. The city has a six-year primary education program. After completing primary school, students progress to one of four types of secondary school for six further years

Berlin has a unique bilingual school program embedded in the 'Europaschule'. Children get taught the curriculum in German and a foreign language starting in grammar school and later in secondary school. Throughout nearly all cityboroughs a range of 9 major European languages in 29 schools can be chosen