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Current figures at a glance
Students
| Numbers | Description |
|---|---|
| 22,612 | students enrolled as of the winter semester 2022-23 (first registration incl. students on leave and in preparatory courses), of which |
| 13,002 | female (57.5 %) |
| 9,589 | male (42.4 %) |
| 12 | other |
| 9 | no response |
| 4,346 | international students (19.2 %) |
| 3,255 | graduations in the 2021 examination year (winter semester 2020-21 and summer semester 2021, not including doctoral degrees) |
| 462 | conferral of doctoral degrees in the examination year 2021 |
Finances
- 436.6 million € budget (2022), of which
- 101.8 million € third-party funding, other research funding and own earnings
Degree Programs
| Numbers | Description |
|---|---|
| 199 | degree programs (winter semester 2023-24), of which |
| 27 | Bachelor‘s programs |
| 72 | Master‘s programs |
| 8 | continuing education Master's programs |
| 1 | “Magister“ program |
| 21 | teacher degree programs for “Teaching at secondary schools” (Lehramt an Gymnasien) |
| 4 | “State Examinations” (Staatsexamen) programs |
| 1 | program with the degree “Ecclesiastical Examinations” (Kirchliches Examen) |
Research
(as of 2023)
| Numbers | Description |
|---|---|
| 13 | Leibniz Prize Winners |
| 7 | Collaborative Research Centers /Transregios (CRC/TRR, UMR as head university or co-applicant) |
| 8 | DFG Research Groups (UMR as head university) |
| 8 | Research Training Groups |
| 5 | LOEWE Centers and Clusters (UMR as head university) |
| 8 | ERC-Grants |
| 2 | Marie Curie – Individual Fellowships |
| 4 | Marie Curie – Innovative Training Networks (EU “Research Training Groups”) |
| 1 | Marie Curie – RISE |
| 10 | EU Collaborative Research Projects in Horizon 2020 |
| 1 | EU Collaborative Research Project in FP7 |
| 4 | ERA Networks |
International
| Numbers | Description |
|---|---|
| 33 % | international doctoral candidates in the winter semester 2021-22 |
| 13.2 % | completed doctoral degrees by international candidates in the academic year 2020 |
| 32.9 % | students who earned their university entry qualification abroad among the first-year students in the academic year 2020 |
| 330 | students abroad (study or internship) in the winter semester 2021-22 |
| 301 | international exchange students in the winter semester 2021-22 |
| 146 | DAAD Scholarship recipients (not including doctoral candidates) in the academic year 2020, of which |
| 35 | are abroad (German scholarship recipients) |
| 111 | are from abroad (international scholarship recipients) |
| 9 | international degree programs in the academic year 2020 |
| 321 | Partner Universities within the Erasmus+ Framework |
| 1,294 | mobilities via “Inter-Institutional Agreements” in the academic year 2021 |
| 129 | bilateral agreements outside the Erasmus+ program in the academic year 2021 |
| 10 | Humboldt Scholarship recipients in the academic year 2020 |
| 1 | Humboldt Professorship started in the academic year 2021 |
Employees
(number of people as of December 2021)
| Numbers | Description |
|---|---|
| 374 | professors (incl. University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg, UKGM) |
| 2,333 | faculty (incl. professors, excl. UKGM) |
| 1,862 | staff (excl. UKGM) |
| 378 | part-time faculty |
| 4,244 | total employees |
Organization
- 16 departments
- 12 research centers
The facts and figures are from the years 2020 to 2023.