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

Faculties: 6

Clusters of Excellence: 4

Graduate Schools, including two Excellence Graduate Schools: 34

Collaborative Research Centres / Transregios: 12

ERC-Grants: 20

Leibniz Prize Winners: 11

Alexander von Humboldt Professorships: 4

UoC Centres: 16

Third-party Funding: 209,9 Mio. € (Medicine 94,9 Mio. €) (12/2017)

Total budget: 809,3 Mio. € (Medicine 255,8 Mio €) (12/2017)

Academic staff: 5.827 (including Professorship / including Clinical Staff) (12/2017)

Administrative and technichal staff: 6.018 (including. Med. Faculty + Clinic without nursing staff) (12/2017)

Professors: 649 (12/2017)

Degree programme: 335 (WS2017/18)

Freshmen: 7.169 (WS 2017/18)

Students: 48.841 (WS2017/18)

Graduates: 7.862 (year of examination 2017)

Completed Doctorates: 741 (WS2017/18)