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
12,490 students and enrolled doctoral researchers (as at 15 October 2020),
including 1,634 international students (13.08%), e.g. from Austria 161, India 160, Russian Federation 99, China (PRC) 91, Tunisia 84, Pakistan 62, Iran 51, Turkey 50, Syria 48, Italy 46, Ukraine 46, Hungary 46, France 37, Nigeria 37, Bangladesh 27, Czech Republic 27, Colombia 26, Brazil 24, Vietnam 24, Kosovo 23, Egypt 22, Greece 21, Morocco 20, United States 19, Croatia 18, Bulgaria 16, Romania 16, Indonesia 15, Poland 15, Mexico 14, Albania 13, Ghana 12, Slovakia 11, Spain 11, Uzbekistan 11, Argentina 10, Azerbaijan 10, Nepal 10, Serbia 10.
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 | 1 |
| Computer Science and Mathematics | 17 | 4 | 1 |
| Totals | 91 | 29 | 3 |
Enrolled students
| Faculties | Enrolled students | of which in their 1st semester of study |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Law | 2,326 | 487 |
| Business, Economics and Information Systems | 1,764 | 532 |
| Arts and Humanities (with Department of Catholic Theology, not including Teacher Education Programmes) | 4,469 | 1,072 |
| Computer Science and Mathematics | 1,114 | 226 |
| Teacher Education Programmes | 2,565 | 561 |
| Enrolled doctoral students | 252 | 22 |
| Totals | 12,490 | 2,900 |
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 | Professional staff | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | Headcount | FTE | Headcount | FTE | Headcount | FTE |
| Totals | 1,169 | 934.71 | 688 | 544.93 | 481 | 389.78 |
| Male | 561 | 477.15 | 409 | 330.99 | 152 | 146.16 |
| Female | 608 | 457.56 | 279 | 213.94 | 329 | 243.63 |
(Figures as at 1 July 2020)
The University maintains worldwide partnerships with 255 universities and higher education institutions (figure as at 1 October 2020).
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. 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
- 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; and M.Sc. Computer Science
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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