Facts and figures
Student stats
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
Staff stats
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
Finances
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.
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
- 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