Hochschulen
1. To find out more about the German university system, go to the
official web page of the German Academic Exchange Service,
Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD. (http://www.daad.de/).
In German, English, and Spanish. There is also an American site,
DAAD New York (http://www.daad.org/).
2. Most major search engines offer the web addresses of German universities so you can get an impression of the school. Click on the category with "Bildung" in the title to get started. You might begin with this list of
German "Hochschulen" (http://www.holderied.de/DeutscheHochschulen.html), a link from Felix Holderied's home page. Felix Holeried is at the
Institut für Rechnerentwurf und Fehlertoleranz. See if you can find a university where you would like to study. Many sites are in German and English.
3. For more information on the complexities of the BAföG, go to the
site of the
Studentenwerk
Oldenburg (http://www.studentenwerk-oldenburg.de/bafoeg/index..html). For
general information about the
Services
of the Studentenwerk Oldenburg use this address
(http://www.studentenwerk-oldenburg.de/allgemein/index.html). In
German with some English and links to English pages.