Facts and figures
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
Last update: Mai 2019