When addressing and providing information to international or English-taught target audiences, terms should be translated correctly and used consistently.

Important information

• As Ulm University is part of the European Higher Education Area, the Board has designated ‘British English’ as the official language version.
   
• The Ulm University is translated as ‘Ulm University’ – as in the logo.

Below you will find some useful tools for translating specialist academic terms from German into English and vice versa:

Glossary (xlsx | CSV | PDF)
This collection of over 4,000 terms provides translations for a wide range of academic terminology, particularly for the German higher education sector, including the names of our institutions. Do you have any suggestions, or is a term missing? If so, please contact Anke Zeppenfeld.

Style guide (pdf)
Here you will find guidance on the correct use of forms of address, titles, times and dates, and much more.

Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the text book ‘English for University Administration Staff – Self-study Materials and Glossaries’, produced by the DAAD International Academy.

Please note: some terms are used differently in that publication than at Ulm University. We would therefore ask you to always look for suitable solutions first in the glossary and style guide we have provided, and to use the DAAD publication as a supplementary resource.

The book is available for free download here.