The University of Hohenheim is in Stuttgart, Germany. The university says it was founded in 1818 after a devastating famine and is the oldest university in Stuttgart. It has three faculties, Agricultural Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Business, Economics and Social Sciences, and reported 8,838 students in the 2025/2026 winter semester. Bioeconomy is a joint specialisation across its research and teaching.
The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences says it develops production technology for the agricultural and nutrition sectors and works on rural areas and on consumer, animal and environmental protection. It has 11 institutes, including the Institute of Crop Science, the Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, the Institute of Agricultural Engineering, the Institute of Animal Science and the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute), and offers 14 study programmes in agriculture. Other units include the Agricultural Research Station, the Center for Livestock Technology and the Center for Organic Farming. The university reports 770 hectares of experimental station property off campus.