Thoughts From Abroad
Berlin is a city that wakes up every morning to reinvent itself. It is a place of stark contrasts—dark memories and bright new dreams—where 3.4 million people live, work, and play.
As capital of Germany, Berlin sits at a cultural and political crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe with influences, from Teutonic to techno running through the people, architecture, museums, cuisine, music, and arts.
In Berlin you will study at the Freie Universität, one of only nine top German universities funded under the German Federal Excellence Initiative. Your German will improve in and outside the classroom as you immerse yourself in the vibrant pulse of a city once divided by a wall, now reunited and changing every day.
Come to Berlin so you too can say, “Ich bin [ein] Berliner.”
— Benjamin Lorch, Resident Director