High practical and economic relevance; engineering orientation; focus on complex, scalable IT systems; special admissions process; intensive study preparation, support and guidance; very good student-teacher ratio and personal contact between lecturers and students; high proportion of teamwork in courses; 2-semester Bachelor's project; comprehensive professional skills & entrepreneurship training; design thinking module; innovative teaching methods, online courses and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs); promotion of internationality

Project-oriented teaching, where students work on real problems. Research-oriented teaching content that reflects current research. Opportunity to carry out own research projects. Practical experience through close cooperation with companies. Interdisciplinary teaching approaches for the development of soft skills and entrepreneurial skills. Use of the Future SOC Lab; design thinking supplementary studies; Entrepreneur school: use of innovative teaching methods closely integrated, including online courses and MOOCs. International perspectives integrated into curricula.

Stanford University: Joint research project with 2 joint workshops per year, continuing education programme, courses for master's students; Internet Bridge China (e-learning for students at Chinese universities); international research school branches: University of Capetown (South Africa), Technion (Haifa), University of Nanjing (China); branch in New York to promote exchanges with local academics; approx. 30% of doctoral students of international origin; international internship program with SAP; in some cases internal partners in the bachelor's project; ERASMUS exchange

University College Dublin, Ireland; University of Jyväskylä, Finnland; Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italien; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola - Blekinge Institut of Technology, Schweden; University of Tartu, Estland; University of Coimbra, Portugal; EFREI (Ecole Française d'Electronique et d'Informatique), Frankreich; Telecom ParisTech, Frankreich; Türk-Alman University, Türkei

State of the art hardware and software equipment – replaced every 2 years; Approx. 2 students for every PC workstation; 2 graphics pool rooms; Central versioning system for students; High-end research laboratory (highlights: High-RAM multicore machines with 1.5/2 TiB RAM, 1,000-core cluster, GPU power with 40,960 cores and 1,000 terraflops, 400 TiB HDD storage, in-memory computing in SAP HANA); Additional computing capacity through virtual servers; Multi-display laboratoryMultitoe (interactive floor), 3D printer, 3D scanner, laser cutter; E-learning portal; from 2021: private computer centre.

HPI Research Schools "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" and "Data Science and Engineering" with branches in China, USA, South Africa and Israel; HPI for Digital Health at Mt. Sinai in NYC; HPI branch in NYC, for scientific exchange, among other things; Design Thinking Research Programme with Stanford University; Top research lab Future SOC Lab; State-of-the-art hardware and software equipment; annually. Approximately 15 scientific conferences and 10–15 research colloquia, to which the students are also invited; Dedicated publication series; Clean IT Conference; AI research

No tuition fees; HPI scholarship programme; Comprehensive design thinking programme; Approx. 25,000 sqm for teaching, learning and research; 26 student clubs; HPI Student Academy; HPI digital blog; Alumni programme; Sports fields; Executive education at HPI Academy; Free courses on MOOC education platform openHPI.de; Annually. 150+ HPI events with high-profile national/international experts; Communication zones; Seminar rooms with media technology and PCs freely usable for students; Promotion of women in IT (scholarships, "Women in Tech" talks, FQ lounge). Clean IT initiative; SDGs@HPI