Facts and figures
Student stats
Degree programs
- 71 bachelor's programs
- 88 master's programs
- 8 degree programs with state or further examinations
- 12 continuing education and graduate programs
Admission capacities report 2019; official student stats; data incl. 3 joint programs with the Hamburg Media School (HMS)
Number of students
- 43,957 enrolled students in Winter Semester 2019/2020 (including doctoral students and students on academic leave)
- approximately 24,841 or 57% are female
- approximately 19,116 or 43% are male
- approximately 6,784 or 14% are international students
- incl. students on academic leave: 451
- 5,239 enrolled doctoral candidates in Winter Semester 2019/2020
Dated 4 September 2020, official student stats, incl. students in the joint degree programs with the Hamburg Media Schoolk (HMS)
Number of first-year students
- UHH total: 10,221
- incl. medical students: 416
University applications in the academic year 2019:
- 42,856
Application stats 2019; source: Department of Studies and Teaching
Degrees
- Completed degrees (except doctorates): 6,006
- incl. bachelor's: 2,618
- incl. master's: 2,346
- incl. state or further examinations: 846
- incl. "old" degree programs: 47
- incl. further graduate degrees: 142
Dated 4 September 2020, degree stats, academic year 2019
Doctorates and Habilitationen
- Doctorates: 925
- Habilitation theses: 59
Dated 4 September 2020; Habilitation stats 2019; data by calendar year and doctoral degree stats 2019, data by examination year
Staff stats
Number of employees
- Total number of staff: 13,449 (equivalent to 11,623.6 full-time positions)
- incl. 8,198 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- incl. 8,557 females (=64%)
- incl. 4,892 males (=36%)
- Total number of professors: 667 (incl. externally funded endowed professorships; excl. research associates who fill in periodically for professors)
- approximately 156 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- approximately 208 are female (=31%)
- incl. 459 males (=69%)
- Total number of research associates (excl. professors and research associates who fill in periodically for professors): 5,039
- approximately 2,522 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- approximately 2,508 are female (=50%)
- incl. 2,531 males (=50%)
- Total number of technical, library and administrative staff (incl. nursing staff): 7,747
- approximately 5,520 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- approximately 5,845 are female (=75%)
- incl. 1,902 males (=25%)
Dated 4 September 2020, staff stats 2019; source UKE
Finances
Budget
- 2019: €541 million state funding (incl. investments)
- incl. medicine: €160 million
External Funding
- 2019: €261 million
- incl. medicine: €110 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
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
Last update: Mai 2019