Heidelberg University Germany

The university has an emphasis on research and has been associated with 56 Nobel Prize laureates. It is consistently ranked among Europe`s top overall universities, and is an international education venue for doctoral students, with approximately 1,000 doctorates successfully completed every year, and with more than one third of the doctoral students coming from abroad. International students from some 130 countries account for more than 20 percent of the entire student body. Heidelberg comprises two major campuses: one in Heidelberg`s Old Town and another in the Neuenheimer Feld quarter on the outskirts of the city. The university`s noted alumni include eleven domestic and foreign Heads of State or Heads of Government.