The Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is a Roman Catholic research university located at the small cities of Eichstätt and Ingolstadt in Germany. The university can trace its roots back to 1564, when the university was founded by bishop Martin von Schaumburg. The present day university came into existence in 1980, after a fusion of Eichstätt School of Education and the School of Philosophy and Theology in 1972.
The university offers courses across more than 40 subjects through its eight different faculties including Catholic theology, philosophy and education, languages and literatures, history and social sciences, mathematics and geography, business administration and economics.
The university has libraries, inter-disciplinary health sciences centre, an institute of marriage and family in the society, a language teaching centre and different cultural centres.
Students can learn more than one languages during their course of study with Russian, Spanish, French and English being the most common languages that are offered at the university.