This guide lists the510 universities and colleges in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It provides information such as address and contact details as well as the leading members of staff for approximately 15,000 scientific departments and institutions, including university offices, departments for press/publicity, student advice centres, computer centres and archives with their respective directors. A subject index with more than 1,000 terms is included along with an index of persons, covering about 12,000 heads of departments.

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