Free University of Berlin (German: Freie Universität Berlin, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU)
Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and German: Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology)
Leibniz University Hannover, long form in German Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
University of Hamburg (German: Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH)
Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; German: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
RWTH Aachen University (German: Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen)