
Students: 1,334
– First-semester students: 292
– Female students: 627
– International students: 183
Plus 39 students from our partnership with JLU Giessen
Total students: 1373
Number of degree programs: 18 (8 bachelor's programs and 10 master's programs)
(Last updated: winter semester 2025/26)

Total number of staff: 576
– Professors: 41
– Scientific staff: 139
– Administrative & technical staff: 374
– Trainees: 22
As well as 6 honorary professorships and 3 co-appointments with the Julius Kühn Institute
(Last updated: December 1, 2024)

Around 100 ongoing externally-funded projects
3 research focus points across the entire value chain of specialty crops
Number of doctoral students: 97 (52% of them women)
Completed doctorates since the university was founded: 44
(Last updated: May 1, 2025)

Around 180 cooperations with partner universities and research institutions worldwide
Around 200 international students in the winter semester 2024/25 from 50 different nations
Top ranking in the HSI monitor, e.g.:
– 1st place (2020): percentage of outgoing Erasmus interns
– 1st place (2021): total number of international cooperations (non-including Erasmus)
– 2nd place (2021): percentage of foreign students pursuing a doctoral degree