Facts and figures
Student stats
Degree programs
- 70 bachelor's programs
- 95 master's programs
- 8 degree programs with state or further examinations
- 14 continuing education and graduate programs
Admission capacities report 2018; official student stats; data incl. 3 joint programs with the Hamburg Media School (HMS)
Number of students
- 43,636 enrolled students in Winter Semester 2018/2019 (including doctoral students and students on academic leave)
- approximately 24,496 or 56% are female
- approximately 19,140 or 44% are male
- approximately 5,697 or 13% are international students
- incl. students on academic leave: 433
- 4,807 enrolled doctoral candidates in Winter Semester 2018/2019
Dated 2 April 2019, official student stats, incl. students in the joint degree programs with the Hamburg Media Schoolk (HMS)
Number of first-year students
- UHH total: 10,126
- incl. medical students: 421
University applications in the academic year 2018:
- 44,857
Application stats 2018; source: Department of Studies and Teaching
Degrees
- Completed degrees (except doctorates): 6,141
- incl. bachelor's: 2,658
- incl. master's: 2,359
- incl. state or further examinations: 915
- incl. "old" degree programs: 56
- incl. further graduate degrees: 153
Dated 2 April 2019, degree stats, academic year 2018
Doctorates and Habilitationen
- Doctorates: 873
- Habilitation theses: 57
Dated 2 April 2019; Habilitation stats 2018; data by calendar year and doctoral degree stats 2018, data by examination year
Staff stats
Number of employees
- Total number of staff: 13,020 (equivalent to 10,830.1 full-time positions)
- incl. 7,825 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- incl. 8,229 females (=63%)
- incl. 4,791 males (=37%)
- Total number of professors: 675 (incl. externally funded endowed professorships; excl. research associates who fill in periodically for professors)
- approximately 153 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- approximately 206 are female (=31%)
- incl. 469 males (=69%)
- Total number of research associates (excl. professors and research associates who fill in periodically for professors): 4,904
- approximately 2,401 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- approximately 2,384 are female (=49%)
- incl. 2,520 males (=51%)
- Total number of technical, library and administrative staff (incl. nursing staff): 7,441
- approximately 5,271 in the Faculty of Medicine (MED) / University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
- approximately 5,639 are female (=76%)
- incl. 1,802 males (=24%)
Dated 2 April 2019, staff stats 2018; source UKE
Finances
Budget
- 2018: €514 million state funding (incl. investments)
- incl. medicine: €154 million
External Funding
- 2018: €237 million
- incl. medicine: €98 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