Facts and figures
The University of Passau opened on 9 October 1978 with a total enrolment figure of 463 students in its first semester.
Students
11,889 students and enrolled doctoral researchers (official figures for summer semester 2020),
including 1,577 international students (13.26%), e.g. from India 170, Austria 143, China (PRC) 98, Russian Federation 89, Tunisia 69, Pakistan 64, Syria 51, Iran 51, Ukraine 48, Turkey 47, France 42, Hungary 41, Italy 37, Nigeria 32, Bangladesh 27, Kosovo 23, Egypt 22, Colombia 22, Romania 22, Vietnam 22, Greece 21, Spain 21, Czech Republic 21, Morocco 20, Brazil 19, Croatia 17, Indonesia 16, USA 16, Bulgaria 14, Mexico 13, Nepal 12, Poland 12, Albania 10, Ghana 10, Kazakhstan 10, Serbia 10, Slovakia 10 and other countries.
Figures by faculty
Professors
| Faculties | Chaired professors (C4/W3) | Non-chaired professors (C3/W2) | Assistant professors (W1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Law | 19 | 3 | |
| Business, Economics and Information Systems | 21 | 1 | |
| Arts and Humanities (including the Department of Catholic Theology) | 34 | 22 | |
| Computer Science and Mathematics | 17 | 4 | 1 |
| Totals | 91 | 29 | 2 |
Enrolled students
| Faculties | Enrolled students | of which in their 1st semester of study |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Law | 2,075 | N/A |
| Business, Economics and Information Systems | 1,575 | 39 |
| Arts and Humanities (with Department of Catholic Theology, not including Teacher Education Programmes) | 4,450 | 320 |
| Computer Science and Mathematics | 1,155 | 178 |
| Teacher Education Programmes | 2,370 | 135 |
| Enrolled doctoral students | 264 | 33 |
| Totals | 11,889 | 723 |
The student figures are the total number of students enrolled in programmes offered by the respective faculties. As the bachelor’s and master’s programmes as well as the teacher education programmes have a modular stucture, they may include modules administered by other faculties.
Staff structure, international partnerships, organisational units
| Staff in primary occupation | Academic Staff | Academic Support Staff | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | Headcount | FTE | Headcount | FTE | Headcount | FTE |
| Totals | 1,158 | 926.59 | 685 | 545.65 | 473 | 380.94 |
| Male | 553 | 475.01 | 403 | 331.08 | 150 | 143.93 |
| Female | 605 | 451.58 | 282 | 214.57 | 323 | 237.01 |
(Figures as at 1 February 2020)
The University maintains worldwide partnerships with 244 universities and higher education institutions (figure as at 1 October 2019).
Central facilities and services, institutes and research centres
Support for early career researchers
- Research Services
- Graduate Centre
The Graduate Centre is the first port of call for all organisational and interdisciplinary questions concerning doctoral and postdoctoral research. It offers the following services:- Advice and training programmes on various different competency areas relevant to early career researchers
- Grants for travel expenses and publication expenses
- Individual advice and a wide range of information on doctoral and postdoctoral study
- Careers advice for early career researchers
- Research Training Groups
- Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (international doctoral research training group of the Bavarian Elite Network)
- Bavarian Research Training Group on Political Theory
- BayWISS 'Verbundpromotionskolleg' on digitalisation, media and communication, life sciences and green technologies
- DFG Research Training Group 1681/2 'Privacy and Digitalisation'
- Graduate School of International Cultural Studies (GSICS)
- Tri-national Research Training Group Multimedia Distributed and Pervasive Systems (MDPS), which offers double doctorate opportunities in Germany, France and Italy
- ZD.B Junior Research Groups in software engineering (PICCARD) and information systems (Data Policies)
Study options
Bachelor's programmes
B.A. European Studies
B.A. European Studies Major
B.A. Governance and Public Policy
B.A. Historical Sciences
B.A. International Cultural and Business Studies
B.A. Journalism and Strategic Communication
B.A. Language and Text Sciences
B.A. Media and Communication
Master's programmes
M.A. Caritas Science and Values-based Management
M.A. Development Studies
M.A. European Studies
M.A. Geography: Culture, Environment and Tourism
M.A. Governance and Public Policy
M.A. Historical Sciences
M.A. International Cultural and Business Studies
M.A. Media and Communication
M.A. North and Latin American Studies
M.A. Russian and East Central European Studies
M.A. Semiotics of Texts and Culture
M.Ed. Teaching and Learning Processes
Undergraduate teacher education programmes
Programmes concluding with a state examination:
Primary education
Secondary education (Mittelschule)
Secondary education (Realschule)
Secondary education (Gymnasium)
Programmes concluding with a bachelor's or master's degree:
Bachelor and Master of Education (pilot scheme)
Bachelor's programmes
B.Sc. Computer Science
B.Sc. Internet Computing
B.Sc. Mathematics
Master's programmes
M.Sc. Computational Mathematics
M.Sc. Computer Science
M.Sc. Mobile and Embedded Systems
- Language courses for students of all faculties in Chinese, Czech, English, French, German as a Foreign Language, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese
- Subject-specific language programmes for students of business & economics; cultural studies & international relations; law; and computer science & mathematics
- A wide range of transferable skills courses are offered to all students through the Centre for Careers and Competencies
- Numerous exchange programmes with our international partner universities
- International double degree programmes for students enrolled in the following programmes: Law undergraduate programme; LL.M. German and Russian Law; M.Sc. Business Administration; M.A. European Studies; M.A. Governance and Public Policy; B.A. and M.A. International Cultural and Business Studies; M.Sc. Computational Mathematics; M.Sc. Computer Science; and M.Sc. Mobile and Embedded Systems
Student Services Association (Studentenwerk)
Student halls of residence with approximately 600 rooms.
Refectory with a seating capacity of 560.
Proportion of students receiving BAföG student loans: 12.4% (in winter semester 2019–20)
Website of the Student Services Association (Studentenwerk)
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