The HTWK Leipzig specializes in the fields of technology, business and culture and has been combining practice-oriented teaching and application-oriented research for almost 30 years. It offers its students an optimal and application-oriented course of study in future-oriented degree programs. The university has a unique regional selling point thanks to its broad engineering and technical profile. The engineering, economic and cultural science traditions form the basis for the special diversity of the disciplines combined at the university. More than 40 degree programs are offered at the six faculties of architecture and social sciences, civil engineering, digital transformation, computer science and media, engineering, economics and industrial engineering. Around 6.400 students are enrolled at the HTWK, making it one of the largest universities of applied sciences in Germany.
The University of Technology, Economics and Culture was re-established in 1992. The traditions of its predecessor institutions go back in a direct line to 1838.