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Facts and Figures

  • Founding year: 1948

  • Students: 33,900 students in bachelor's and master's degree programs (WS 2023/24)

  • Students from abroad: 12 percent in bachelor's degree programs; 31 percent in master's degree programs

  • Doctoral students: 3,500

  • Doctoral students from abroad: 41 percent

  • Professors: 382, incl. 47 joint appointments with non-university research institutes; 85 fixed-term professors

  • Staff: 4,730

  • Departments and central institutes: 11 academic departments, 1 joint medical school with Humboldt-Universität, 4 transdisciplinary central institutes

  • Degree programs: 176

  • Undergraduate degree programs: 79

  • Consecutive master's degree programs: 97, also 6 postgraduate degree programs and 28 doctoral degree programs
  • Doctoral programs: 51

  • Collaborative research centers (DFG): 10 as host university, 13 as participating institution, 6 as part of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (2023)

  • Annual government funding 2023: 400 million euros p. a. of which 66 million euros are for pension and health plans

  • External funding expenditures: 144 million euros (2023, preliminary status)

Figures do not include medicine unless stated otherwise; 2023 unless stated otherwise

Source: Stabsstelle Akademisches Controlling, Statistikdatenbank der Freien Universität Berlin