Universität Hamburg is made up of six schools, each of which houses a number of different departments devoted to related subject areas. 
The School of Law offers the over 3,200 aspiring lawyers studying at Universität Hamburg a broad range of courses. A particular focus on European and international law is one of the School's trademarks, as is its focus on issues in commerce and commercial law. Cooperative relationships with neighboring discipines, such as economics, provide the necessary interdisciplinarity. To the School...
The School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences encompasses four departments: Business Administration (BWL), Social Sciences, Socioeconomics, Economics (VWL). With more than 400 faculty and staff as well as around 10,000 students, it is the second-largest school at Universität Hamburg.
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The School of Medicine is the academic arm of the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). The School is responsible for teaching, studies, research and continuing education in the area of medical science - its contribution to medical progress. To the School...
The EPB School provides a variety of subjects in the Departments of Education, Psychology and Human Movement Science. It also undertakes numerous research projects in these disciplines. Over 6,000 students were enrolled on degree programs in the EPB School during winter semester 2007/08, making it one of the largest schools at Universität Hamburg. To the School...
As part of the academic knowledge culture, the School of Humanities houses those disciplines that deal with both the articulation of and the forms of reflection on human life – that is, language and communicative media, literature and art, images and sounds, symbol systems, the content of religions, epistemological structures, and normative claims. The "symbolic forms" of human culture in their entirety make up the School's object of inquiry. To the School...
The Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences incorporates the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics as well as the Center for Bioinformatics. Around 200 professors and 370 research staff train and supervise approximately 8,500 students, of which 1,000 are doctoral and 1,800 teacher training students.
The School is currently developing the following interdisciplinary research clusters:
