• Founded: 1948
• Number of students: 34,400 (as of winter semester 2024/2025)
• Students from abroad: 13 percent of bachelor’s degree students; 33 percent of master’s degree students
• Number of doctoral students: 3,300
• Doctoral students from abroad: 42 percent
• Number of professors: 390, including 45 joint appointments with non-university research institutions. The university employs an additional 72 professors on a fixed-term basis.
• Number of full-time employees (including professors): 4,730
• Departments and central institutes: 11 departments, 4 central institutes, and 1 joint medical school with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Number of degree programs: 180, including 81 undergraduate degree programs and 99 consecutive master’s degree programs
• Number of doctoral programs: 73
• Number of Collaborative Research Centers (CRCs): 9 CRCs with Freie Universität Berlin spokesperson, 4 CRC/Transregios with co-spokesperson at Freie Universität, 13 centers with Freie Universität as a participating institution, and 6 as a co-applicant with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (2024)
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• Annual government funding (2024): 410 million euros per annum (of which 70 million euros are reserved for pension and health plans)
• External funding (expenditures): 134 million euros per annum

The above facts and figures refer to data from the 2024 calendar year unless otherwise stated. They do not include the area of medicine unless specifically mentioned.

Source: Academic Controlling Office, Freie Universität Berlin’s statistics database