University of Leipzig: Statistics

Quick Review

Acceptance rate

10%

Enrollment

31,088

Type

Non-profit

Funding

Public-private
partnership

Highest Degree

Doctorate

Website

www.uni-leipzig.de

Languages

German;English

Acceptance rate & Admissions

We've calculated the 10% acceptance rate for University of Leipzig based on the ratio of admissions to applications and other circumstantial enrollment data. Treat this information as a rough guide and not as a definitive measure of your chances of admission. Different programs may have significantly varying admissions rates.

Research profile

University of Leipzig is a world-class research university with 87,079 scientific papers published and 2,146,680 citations received. The research profile covers a range of fields, including Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Environmental Science.

Publications

87,079

Citations

2,146,680

University of Leipzig majors

by publication & citation count

Annual publication & citation counts

Tuition

The tuition table for University of Leipzig gives an overview of costs but prices are approximate and subject to change and don't include accommodation, textbooks, or living expenses. The costs of programs might differ significantly for local and international students. The only source of truth for current numbers is the university's official website.

Currency: Euro (€)

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 Leipzig.

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 Leipzig alumni

1. Friedrich Nietzsche

   

   Born in

   Germany

   Years

   1844-1900 (aged 56)

   Enrolled in the University of Leipzig

   Studied in 1865-1879

   Occupations

   philosophermusic criticpoetcomposerpedagogue

   Biography

   Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. In 1869 at the age of 24, he became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. In 1879 he resigned due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, after which he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889 at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897, and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.

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2. Angela Merkel

   

   Born in

   Germany

   Years

   1954-.. (age 71)

   Enrolled in the University of Leipzig

   1973-1978 graduated with Diplom in physics

   Occupations

   physicistpolitician

   Biography

   Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. Merkel previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. During her chancellorship, Merkel was frequently referred to as the de facto leader of the European Union (EU) and the most powerful woman in the world.

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3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   

   Born in

   Germany

   Years

   1749-1832 (aged 83)

   Enrolled in the University of Leipzig

   1765-1768 studied jurisprudence

   Occupations

   lawyerpoetplaywrightstatespersonmusic critic

   Biography

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic, his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and color.

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4. Richard Wagner

   

   Born in

   Germany

   Years

   1813-1883 (aged 70)

   Occupations

   writerautobiographercomposerpianistpoet

   Biography

   Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), whereby he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. The drama was to be presented as a continuously sung narrative, without conventional operatic structures like arias and recitatives. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the 16-hour, four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, also known simply as The Ring).

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