Facts and Figures
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Students in Winter Semester 2020/21 Total students (including on a leave of absence) 79,702 Active students (not including on a leave of absence) 78,206 Men 53.32% Women 46.66% Enrolled in a degree program 68,257 Open Access students 7,311 Continuing education students 2,638 Enrolled in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 21% Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science 16% Faculty of Psychology 19% Faculty of Business Administration and Economics 29% Faculty of Law 15% In regular employment ca. 80% Previously completed a university degree ca. 51% Average age (in years) 37.6 Citizenship German 70,743 Another European country 6,468 Another country (total, including European and stateless) 7,463 Current Residence Germany 72,264 Another European country 5,416 Another country (total, including Europe) 5,942 -
University Staff (Date: 1 October 2020)1) Total number of employees2) Full-time equivalents7) Staff financed through the university budget and third-party funds Total Women Total Women President 1 1 1 1 Head of Administration 1 1 1 1 Total Professors3) 90 29 89.39 28.39 - W2/3 temporary professorships3 3 3 3 - Junior professorships 8)4 3 3.99 2.39 - Interim Professorships3 2 3 2 Academic Staff 519 239 441.59 195.51 Academic and student assistants4) 234 140 59.60 32.15 Tutors5) 287 117 39.79 22.83 Administrative and technical staff6) 720 491 615.64 401.15 Total university staff 1,852 1018 1248.01 682.03 1) Data from the BI (Basic data from October 2020).
2) Not including staff on special leave according to collective labor agreements and civil service law, receiving temporary pensions, on parental leave, or on secondment. No employees are double-counted in these figures.
3) Including W-1 professorships.
4) Includes academic assistants and student assistants.
5)Includes academic online tutors and mentors.
6)Including trainees.
7) Full-time equivalents represent the relationship between employees’ individual working times and full-time employment as defined by law or collective labor agreements.
8) The junior professorships include two tenure-track junior professorships and one fast track junior professorship.
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Budget 2019 Revenue €94.7 million including: Ongoing state funding €72.4 million Revenue from fees and other income €16.2 million Third-party contributions / Continuing education €6.1 million Other temporary state funding
(not included in revenue above)€13.6 million Higher Education Pact1 €9.5 million Other funding2 €4.1 million 1 Higher Education Pact III including compensation funds, master program, European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), building and investment funds, FernUni development plan
2 Subsidies, KAoA program, service offices, grants for the Programme for Women Professors, Digitale Hochschule NRW, Digitalisierungsoffensive, Chancengerechte Hochschule NRW, Landesunfallkasse
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You can get an overview of the current semester, student statistics by semester, and graduation statistics over time at our in-depth statistics page (German).
