Facts and figures

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}

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}

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}

• 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}