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Student stats

Degree programs

  • 72 bachelor's programs
  • 89 master's programs
  • 6 degree programs with state or further examinations
  • 15 continuing education and graduate programs

Admission capacities report 2020; student stats;  data incl. 3 joint programs with the Hamburg Media School (HMS)

Number of students

  • 44,185 enrolled students in Winter Semester 2020/2021 (including doctoral students and students on academic leave)
    • approximately 25,100 or 57% are female
    • approximately 5,689 or 13% are international students
    • incl. students on academic leave: 348
  • 5,491 enrolled doctoral candidates in Winter Semester 2020/2021

Dated 22 October 2021, official student stats,  incl. students in the joint degree programs with the Hamburg Media Schoolk (HMS)

Number of first-year students

  • UHH total: 10,269
    • incl. medical students: 398

University applications in the academic year 2020:

  • 44,324

Application stats 2020; source: Department of Studies and Teaching

Degrees

  • Completed degrees (except doctorates): 5,335
    • incl. bachelor's: 2,470
    • incl. master's: 2,014
    • incl. state or further examinations: 693
    • incl. "old" degree programs: 17
    • incl. further graduate degrees: 141

Dated 22 October 2021, degree stats, academic year 2020

Doctorates and Habilitationen

    • Doctorates: 831
    • Habilitation theses: 45

Dated 22 October 2021; Habilitation stats 2020;  data by calendar year and examination degree stats 2020, data by examination year

Staff stats

Number of employees

  • Total number of staff: 14,8031 (equivalent to 12,805.1 full-time positions)
    • incl. 9,317 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
    • incl. 9,463 females (=64%)
  • Total number of professors: 673 (incl. externally funded endowed professorships; excl. research associates who fill in periodically for professors)
    • approximately 167 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
    • approximately 213 are female (=32%)
  • Total number of research associates (excl. professors and research associates who fill in periodically for professors): 5,598
    • approximately 2,894 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
    • approximately 2,764 are female (=49%)
  • Total number of technical, library and administrative staff (incl. nursing staff): 8,537
    • approximately 6,256 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
    • approximately 6,490 are female  (=76%)

1 Double employment in different HR categories at the University (excluding UKE) are counted only once.

Dated 15 March 2020, staff stats 2020; source UKE

Finances

Budget

  • 2020: €564 million state funding (incl. investments)
    • incl. medicine: €161 million

External Funding

  • 2020: €273 million
    • incl. medicine: €109 million

Section 72: Financial Management and data from the UKE; survey conducted on the basis of the official higher education financial statistics; note: external funding incl. forwarded funds; dated 22 October 2021

Institutions

  • 8 faculties
  • 27 departments
  • 4 clusters of excellence: : Advanced Imaging of Matter, Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CliCCS), Understanding Written Artefacts and Quantum Universe 
  • 16 Collaborative Research Centers (8 own, participation in 8)
  • 20 German Research Foundation (DFG) research units (10 own, participation in 10)
  • 40 German Research Foundation (DFG) priority programs ( coordination of 2, participation in 38)
  • 2 research training groups 
  • 2 participations at the International Max Planck Research Schools
  • 1 participation at a Leibniz Graduate School
  • 1 Helmholtz Graduate School (PIER) (participatory)
  • 16 junior research groups 
  • 20 academic centers
  • 8 attached Institutions

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