Universität Hamburg: Profile

As North Germany's largest research and educational institution and Germany's third-largest University, Universität Hamburg combines diverse study opportunities with excellent research. It provides a broad disciplinary spectrum with numerous interdisciplinary opportunities and pursues cooperation with an extensive network of top regional, national and international institutions. Universität Hamburg is devoted to long-term scholarship and science and promotes sustainability research in all schools.

As part of the Federal Excellence Initiative, Universität Hamburg received authorization in 2007 for a Center of Excellence in climate research: the KlimaCampus Hamburg is an educational center for climate research and earth systems science. Besides "Climate, Earth, Environment," further particularly successful key research areas include: Matter and the Universe, the Structure and Function of Biomolecules, Neurosciences, Multilingualism, Governance, Culture and Technology as well as Heterogeneity and Education.

Universität Hamburg offers approximately 170 degree programs in the following six schools: School of Law; School of Business; Economics and Social Sciences; School of Medicine; School of Education, Psychology and Human Movement; School of Humanities and the School of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences.

Furthermore, several museums and collections belong to Universität Hamburg, such as the Zoological Museum, the Herbarium Hamburgense, the Geological-Paleontological Museum, the Botanical Gardens and the Hamburg Planetarium.

Universität Hamburg was founded in 1919 by local private citizens. Important founding figures include Senator Werner von Melle and businessman Edmund Siemers. Nobel prize winners such as Otto Stern, Wolfgang Pauli and Isidor Rabi were active at the Universität and many other well-known scholars such as Ernst Cassirer, Erwin Panofsky, Aby Warburg, William Stern, Agathe Lasch, Magdalene Schoch, Emil Artin, Ralf Dahrendorf and Carl Frierich von Weizsäcker, to name but a few, taught here.

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Structure

• 6 schools

Subjects

• 143 bachelor's and master's programs
• 6 degree programs with state or theological examination
• 30 continuing education and other post-graduate programs

Student Stats

• approx. 40,080 registered students (winter semester 2011/2012, incl. doctoral students and students on academic leave)
  • of which approx. 22.568 or 56% are female
  • of which approx. 4.873 or 12% are foreign students
• approx. 38.075 active students (winter semester 2011/2012, incl. doctoral students but not students on academic leave)

  _{Statistics from 1 December 2011, Student statistics}

Employee Stats

• approx. 670 Professors
  
• of which approx. 110 work at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf/UKE
• of which approx. 160 are female
  
• approx. 4,090 teaching and/or research assistants
• of which approx. 1,870 work at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf/UKE
• of which approx. 1,830 are female
  
• approx. 6,640 technical and administrative employees
• of which approx. 4,640 work for the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf/UKE
• of which approx. 5,060 are female
  

_{Statistics from December 2010}


Budget

• 2010: 254,597 million euros (budgetary support without aid)

External Funding

• 2010: 82,765 million euros

_{Statistics from 1 December 2011}


Institutions

• 1 cluster of excellence: "Integrate Climate System Analysis and Prediction" (CliSAP)
  
• 7 collaborative research centers (5 proper, 2 participatory)
• 6 state clusters of excellence 
• 11 German Research Foundation research groups (5 proper, 6 participatory)
• 18 German Research Foundation key research areas (17 participating, 1 coordinating)
• 7 graduate schools (6 proper, 1 participatory)
• 1 international graduate school
• 6 graduate schools (5 of which are state graduate schools)
• 2 participations at the International Max Planck Research Schools
• 1 participation at a Leibniz graduate school
• 11 junior research groups (7 of which are Emmy-Noether Programs)
• 16 academic centers
  
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre for Science and Peace Research
• Center of Globalization and Governance
• Key research area Biotechnology, Society and Environment (BIOGUM)
• Hamburg Center for Insurance Studies (HZV)
• IIFS - International Tax Institute
  
• Institute for Psychotherapy (IfP)
• Interdisciplinary Centre World Religions in Dialogue (ZWiD)
• Center of Competence in Nano-Scale Analysis (CCN)
• Center for Buddhist Studies
  
• Center for University Teaching (ZHD, formerly IZHD)
• Center for Addicition Research (ZIS)
• Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (ZMAW)
• Center for Mathematical Physics (ZMP)
• Center for Marine and Climate Research (ZMK)
• Center for Modelling and Simulation
  
• Center for Optical Quantum Technologies (ZOQ)
• 8 Attached Institutions
  
• Mission Academy at the Universität Hamburg
  
• Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology at the Universität Hamburg
  
• Hans Bredow Institut for Media Research at the Universität Hamburg
  
• Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the Universität Hamburg (IFSH)
  
• Institute for European Integration at the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg
  
• NORDOST-INSTITUT Lüneburg. Institut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen in Nordosteuropa e.V. (IKGN) (Institute for the culture and history of German in North-East Europe)
  
• Research Center of Contemporary History of Hamburg (FZH)
• Confucius Institute at the Universität Hamburg
  
• Important Research Associations
  
• DESY
  
• Max Planck Institutefor Comparative and International Private Law
  
• Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
  
• The German High-Performance Computing Centre for Climate- and Earth System Science
  
• GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht GmbH
  
• GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
• Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, et.al.
  

Partnerships

• We have 23 partner universities, numerous partnerships with individual academic areas as well as numerous bi-lateral agreements in the Erasmus network. Among others, we have partnernships with:
  
• Monash University, Clayton, Australien
  
• King's College London, Great Britain
  
• University of Bath, Great Britain
  
• Université de Bordeaux III, France
  
• Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
  
• Concordia University College of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  
• Seoul National University, Korea
  
• Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
  
• Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsaw, Poland
  
• University of Gdansk, Danzig, Poland
  
• Staatliche Universität St. Petersburg, Russia
  
• Universiteit Stellenbosch, South Africa
  
• Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Prag, The Czech Republic
  
• University of California, Berkeley, USA
  
• Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA