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The University at a glance

The University of Cologne is one of the oldest and largest universities in Europe. Due to its outstanding scientific achievements and the high quality and diversity of its degree programmes, it enjoys an excellent international reputation.

The UoC’s mission is to create, preserve and impart knowledge, to offer its students and early-career academics outstanding academic education, to qualify them for both academic and professional  careers, to promote cutting-edge research and to drive innovation while focusing on the constantly changing needs and challenges of today’s society.

Statistics

Faculties6

Clusters of Excellence: 4

Graduate Schools: 48 (2023)

Collaborative Research Centres / Transregios16 (10/2023)

ERC-Grants: 19 (10/2023)

Leibniz Prize Winners11 (2023)

Alexander von Humboldt Professorships: 7 (2023)

UoC Centres: 16 (2023)

UoC Affiliate institutes: 15 (2023) (German only)

Third-party Funding: 216,8 Mio. € (Medicine 90,6 Mio. €) (2023)

Total budget: 885,1 Mio. € (Medicine 250,1 Mio €) (2022)

Academic staff: 4.667 (including Professorship / including Clinical Staff) (2022)

Administrative and technichal staff: 3.655 (including. Med. Faculty + Clinic without nursing staff) (2022)

Professors: 613 (2022)

Degree programme: 337  (WS 2022/23)

Freshmen: 6.180 (2022)

Students: 48.214  (2022)

Graduates: 7.010 (2022)

Completed Doctorates: 572 (2022)


At a Glance