Facts and figures

Degree programs

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

_{Admission capacities report 2021; student stats;  data incl. 3 joint programs with the Hamburg Media School (HMS)}

Number of students

• 43,587 enrolled students in Winter Semester 2021/2022 (including doctoral students and students on academic leave)
• approximately 24,798 or 58% are female
• approximately 5,949 or 12% are international students
• incl. students on academic leave: 353
• 5,648 enrolled doctoral candidates in Winter Semester 2021/2022

_{Dated 16 September 2022, official student stats,  incl. students in the joint degree programs with the Hamburg Media Schoolk (HMS)}

Number of first-year students

• UHH total: 9,896
  • incl. medical students: 422

University applications in the academic year 2021:

• 42,432

_{Dated 16 September 2022, application stats 2021; source: Department of Studies and Teaching}

Degrees

• Completed degrees (except doctorates): 5,843
  
  • incl. bachelor's: 2,861
  • incl. master's: 2,142
  • incl. state or further examinations: 705
  • incl. "old" degree programs: 8
  • incl. further graduate degrees: 127

_{Dated 16 September 2022, degree stats, academic year 2021}

Doctorates and Habilitationen

• Doctorates: 900
• Habilitation theses: 49

_{Dated 16 September 2022; Habilitation stats 2021;  data by calendar year and examination degree stats 2021, data by examination year}

Number of employees

• Total number of staff: 15,146¹ (equivalent to 13,057.3 full-time positions)
  • incl. 9,625 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
  • incl. 9,691 females (=64%)

• Total number of professors: 679 (incl. externally funded endowed professorships; excl. research associates who fill in periodically for professors)
• approximately 166 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
• approximately 213 are female (=31%)

• Total number of research associates (excl. professors and research associates who fill in periodically for professors): 5,692
• approximately 2,940 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
• approximately 2,839 are female (=50%)

• Total number of technical, library and administrative staff (incl. nursing staff): 8,778
• approximately 6,519 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
• approximately 6,641 are female  (=76%)

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

_{Staff stats 2021; source UKE}

Budget

• 2021: €582 million state funding (incl. investments)
  • incl. medicine: €173 million

External Funding

• 2021: €291 million
  • incl. medicine: €121 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 16 September 2022}

• 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}