Indian Studies: Top Master Programs in Germany (2026/27)

Germany is a distinguished center for international students pursuing Indian Studies. It offers exceptional programs rooted in a remarkable 200-year tradition of Indological scholarship at prestigious institutions such as the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University and the Department of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. Specialized centers in Hamburg, Göttingen, and Bonn also contribute to this legacy, building on the work of pioneering German Indologists like Max Müller and Karl Friedrich Geldner.