City guides
The degree is the easy part — the first six months of Anmeldung, insurance, and flat-hunting are where newcomers get stuck. One guide per city, in the order things actually have to happen.
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Dortmund
Dortmund is the largest city in the Ruhr area and the third-largest in North Rhine-Westphalia, with just over 600,000 inhabitants (official figure: 603,462 as of 31 Dec 2024), making it Germany's ninth-largest city.
Dortmund is covered first. Other cities follow with the universities we add — methodology.