Facts and Figures
The Essence of JLU – facts and figures regarding study, teaching, and research
Number of persons at the university
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around 25,000 students (as of winter semester 2025/26), see student statistics
- around 5,825 employees (including 422 professors ) and about 5,000 employees of the Giessen and Marburg hospital (UKGM) (as of December 2025)
Teaching and Research
- 11 faculties, 4 graduate centres, 5 interdisciplinary research centres, 2 interdisciplinary centres for study and teaching and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Research excellence: successful in the Excellence Initiative I and II, most successful Hessian university in the Excellence Strategy 2018
- Substantial network funding: 11 special research areas of the DFG, 6 DFG priority programmes, 8 clinical reserach programms, 5 DFG graduate schools
- Broad range of subjects of a comprehensive university, more than 100 courses of study
- most comprehensive range of teaching degrees in Hessen (all types of schools)
- around 80 % student satisfaction (Studierendenbefragung)
- successful in the framework of the national and federal programmes for the promotion of good teaching practice (Qualitätspakt Lehre, „Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung“) and for the promotion of young academics and equal treatment (Nachwuchspakt, Professorinnenprogramm I-III)
- Networks in the framework of the Forschungscampus Mittelhessen (FCMH, research campus Middle Hesse), in the Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area as well as international partners
International
- around 3.800 internationale students
- around 100 formal agreements for partnerships, cooperative programs, and exchanges worldwide and 250 Erasmus+ partner universities
- 5 strategic partner regions: Australia, Europe, Colombia, southern Africa and Wisconsin/USA
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4 external representations: JLU Information Points in Australia, Colombia, Poland and Ukraine
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Founding member of the European University Alliance European University for Peace, Justice and Inclusive Societies (EUPeace)
(as of November 2025)
Finances
Annual budget 2025: 551.2 million euros
of which from third-party funds, other funding and own income: 208.1 million euros
of which from third-party funds, other funding and own income: 208.1 million euros
(as of April 2026)