Witten/Herdecke University is a private, state-recognised non-profit university in Witten in the Ruhr area. It is organised around the broad areas of health and of business and society, with an education model that emphasises personal development and interdisciplinary learning alongside subject study. Admissions include multi-step selection with personal interviews. Students also take cross-disciplinary courses through the university-wide Studium fundamentale, which runs throughout the degree and is intended to broaden perspectives beyond a single field.