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 150 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.
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.
| No. of students: | 38.000* |
| No. of Academic staff: | 4.100 |
| Funding type: | Public |
The Career Center offers support to students, graduates and junior academics from all faculties in finding their way to a job. We are a service organization that aims to prepare and successfully accompany applicants entering a career.
We offer students, graduates und junior academics inspiring und informative seminars, lectures und consultations on topics such as achievement potential, career planning, job application, leadership and how to acquire third-party funds.
To companies we offer interesting cooperation opportunities in which they can introduce themselves in lectures, podium discussions, workshops und career days
With about 38,000 students, the University of Hamburg is one of Germany's largest universities. Approximately 650 of the 4,100 academic staff are full professors. About 120 professors work in the Faculty of Medicine or at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), about 530 work in the other faculties. These are supported by about 5,800 employees working in technical support, libraries, laboratories, health care and administration, with about 3,800 people at the UKE and about 2,000 in the other faculties or the administration. The university is comprised of 150 different buildings throughout the city although its main campus is located in Von-Melle-Park and the surrounding district of Eimsbüttel