Facts and figures

Degree programs

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

_{Admission capacities report 2022; student stats;  data incl. 3 joint programs with the Hamburg Media School (HMS)}

Number of students

• 42,819 enrolled students in Winter Semester 2022/2023 (including doctoral students and students on academic leave)
• approximately 24,365 or 57% are female
• approximately 5,998 or 14% are international students
• incl. students on academic leave: 352
• 5,898 enrolled doctoral candidates in Winter Semester 2022/2023

_{Dated 27 September 2023, official student stats,  incl. students in the joint degree programs with the Hamburg Media Schoolk (HMS)}

Number of first-year students

• UHH total: 9,955
  • incl. medical students: 422

University applications in the academic year 2022:

• 40,601

_{Dated 27 September 2023, application stats 2022; source: Department of Studies and Teaching}

Degrees

• Completed degrees (except doctorates): 5,968
  
  • incl. bachelor's: 2,647
  • incl. master's: 2,292
  • incl. state or further examinations: 881
  • incl. "old" degree programs: 4
  • incl. further graduate degrees: 144

_{Dated 27 September 2023, degree stats, academic year 2022}

Doctorates and Habilitationen

• Doctorates: 824
• Habilitation theses: 64

_{Dated 27 September 2023; Habilitation stats 2022;  data by calendar year and examination degree stats 2022, data by examination year}

Number of employees

• Total number of staff: 15,331¹ (equivalent to 13,288.6 full-time positions)
  • incl. 9,885 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
  • incl. 9,850 females (=64%)

• Total number of professors: 682 (incl. externally funded endowed professorships; excl. research associates who fill in periodically for professors)
• approximately 165 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
• approximately 224 are female (=33%)

• Total number of research associates (excl. professors and research associates who fill in periodically for professors): 5,755
• approximately 3,070 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
• approximately 2,908 are female (=51%)

• Total number of technical, library and administrative staff (incl. nursing staff): 8,896
• approximately 6,650 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
• approximately 6,719 are female  (=76%)

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

_{Staff stats 2022; source UKE}

Budget

• 2022: €577 million state funding (incl. investments)
  • incl. medicine: €185 million

External Funding

• 2022: €314 million
  • incl. medicine: €118 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 excl. forwarded funds; dated 27 September 2023.}

• 8 faculties
• 27 departments
• 4 clusters of excellence: : Advanced Imaging of Matter, Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CliCCS), Understanding Written Artefacts and Quantum Universe 
• 17 Collaborative Research Centers (8 own, participation in 9)
• 27 German Research Foundation (DFG) research units (10 own, participation in 17)
• 37 German Research Foundation (DFG) priority programs (coordination of 1, participation in 36)
• 8 research training groups (8 own)
• 2 participations at the International Max Planck Research Schools
• 1 participation at a Leibniz Graduate School
• 1 Helmholtz Graduate School (PIER) (participatory)
• 21 junior research groups 
• 20 academic centers
• 7 attached Institutions

_{Last update: 11/2022}