Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; German: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

Ulm University (German: Universität Ulm)

Free University of Berlin (German: Freie Universität Berlin, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU)

University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (German: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta)

University of Münster (German: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU)

Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich) (German: Technische Universität München)