Idea

A university for civil society

Guidelines

  • Humanist
  • Sustainable
  • Application-oriented

Organisation

(as of december 2022)

  • 5 schools of research: Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Management and Technology, Sustainability, Public Affairs
  • 3 schools of teaching: College, Graduate School, Professional School
  • 7 Academic institutions: "Kunstraum", Language Centre, Media and Information Centre, Methods Centre, University Music Centre, University Sports Centre, Writing Centre
  • 8 research centres

Students

(as of winter semester 2022/2023)

9.696 students

  • thereof 5.693 College
  • thereof 2.397 Graduate School
  • thereof 1.606 Professional School

Employees

(as of 31.12.2022)

1.099 full-time employees

  •  thereof 101 university professorships
  •  thereof 18 university of applied sciences professorships
  •  thereof 14 assistant professorships
  •  thereof 13 administrative professorships
  •  thereof 18 full-time visiting professorships
  •  thereof 419 research assistants
  •  thereof 535 non-scientific employees

And furthermore:

  •  40 part-time visiting professorships
  •  759 student assistants and research assistants
  •  562 lecturers

Range of Courses

(as of June 2023)

  • College: 12 majors, 17 minors, of which more than 100 combinations are possible; 11 subjects can be combined to form a polyvalent two-subject bachelor's degree, which provides access to the Master of Education for teacher training at primary, secondary and grammar schools as well as teaching at vocational schools.
  • Graduate School: 6 master's programmes with a total of 19 majors (master's programmes), 23 doctoral programmes
  • Professional School: 18 master's programmes, 2 Bachelor's programmes, 36 certificate programmes
  • About 30 institutional university partnerships and about 65 Erasmus partner universities.

Finances

(as of December 2022)

EUR 116.8 million overall budget for 2023

  •  thereof EUR 67.7 million in financial assistance from the federal state
  •  thereof EUR 16.1 million in special funds from the federal state
  •  thereof EUR 22.3 million in third-party funding
  •  thereof EUR 10.7 million in other funds

Campus

(as of June 2023)

  • Central Campus: 1 central building, 26 other buildings
    97.237 sqm total area
    95.437 sqm of which is used by the university
  • Campus Rotes Feld: 1 buildings
    9.763 sqm total area
    5.608 sqm of which used by university
  • Campus Volgershall: 2 buildings
    16.781 sqm total area
    2.267 sqm of which used by the university