University of Gottingen: Statistics

Quick Review

Enrollment

31,619

Type

Non-profit

Funding

Public-private
partnership

Highest Degree

Doctorate

Website

uni-goettingen.de

Languages

German;English

Acceptance rate

20%*

* The University of Gottingen is among the institutions that don't provide data on acceptance rates. This might happen because the university has programs where applicants only need to meet admission requirements to enroll and don't necessarily compete with others.

We estimate the above acceptance rate based on admission statistics of closely ranked nearby universities with similar research profiles that do publish such data.

Acceptance rate & Admissions

Research profile

University of Gottingen is a world-class research university with 88,194 scientific papers published and 2,607,547 citations received. The research profile covers a range of fields, including Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics, Environmental Science, Engineering, Biochemistry, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Genetics, and Computer Science.

Publications

88,194

Citations

2,607,547

University of Gottingen majors

by publication & citation count

Annual publication & citation counts

Tuition

The University of Gottingen has financial aid programs and on-campus housing.

Programs and Degrees

The table below displays academic fields with programs and courses that lead to Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees offered by University of Gottingen.

Note that the table provides a general overview and might not cover all the specific majors available at the university. Always visit the university's website for the most up-to-date information on the programs offered.

University of Gottingen alumni

1. Otto von Bismarck

   

   Born in

   Germany

   Years

   1815-1898 (aged 83)

   Enrolled in the University of Gottingen

   1832-1833 studied legal science

   Occupations

   military officervolunteer serving one yearpoliticiandiplomatjurist

   Biography

   Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg, born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a Prussian and later German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of Junker landowners, Bismarck rose rapidly in Prussian politics, and from 1862 to 1890 he was the minister president and foreign minister of Prussia. Before his rise to the executive, he was the Prussian ambassador to Russia and France and served in both houses of the Prussian parliament. He masterminded the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as the first chancellor of the German Empire until 1890, in which capacity he dominated European affairs. He had served as chancellor of the North German Confederation from 1867 to 1871, alongside his responsibilities in the Kingdom of Prussia. He cooperated with King Wilhelm I of Prussia to unify the various German states, a partnership that would last for the rest of Wilhelm's life. The King granted Bismarck the titles of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen in 1865 and Prince of Bismarck in 1871. Bismarck provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France. Following the victory against Austria, he abolished the supranational German Confederation and instead formed the North German Confederation as the first German national state, aligning the smaller North German states behind Prussia, while excluding Austria. Receiving the support of the independent South German states in the Confederation's defeat of France, he formed the German Empire – which also excluded Austria – and united Germany.

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2. Arthur Schopenhauer

   

   Born in

   Poland

   Years

   1788-1860 (aged 72)

   Enrolled in the University of Gottingen

   Studied in 1809

   Occupations

   writerphilosophermusicologisttranslatoruniversity teacher

   Biography

   Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism. He was among the first thinkers in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance. His work has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism.

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3. Max Weber

   

   Born in

   Germany

   Years

   1864-1920 (aged 56)

   Occupations

   sociologisteconomistanthropologistpoliticianuniversity teacher

   Biography

   Maximilian Karl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, historian, jurist and political economist, who is regarded as among the most important theorists of the development of modern Western society. His ideas profoundly influence social theory and research. While Weber did not see himself as a sociologist, he is recognized as one of the fathers of sociology, along with Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim.

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4. Robert Oppenheimer

   

   Born in

   United States

   Years

   1904-1967 (aged 63)

   Occupations

   theoretical physicistart collectornuclear physicistengineeruniversity teacher

   Biography

   J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist. A professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and is often credited as the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project—the World War II undertaking—that developed the world's first nuclear weapon.

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University of Gottingen faculties and divisions

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