The University of Passau — facts and figures

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Summer semester 2018

Statistics

12,117 students and enrolled doctoral researchers (in summer semester 2018; figures as at 28 March 2018),including 1,425 international students (11.76%) from e.g. Austria (161), India (157), China (PRC) (78), Russian Federation (75), Tunisia (63), Turkey (52), Pakistan (49), France (41), Syria (40), Italy (40), Ukraine (40), Hungary (39), Czech Republic (28), Argentina (27), Romania (27), Spain (26), United States (26), Iran (24), Brazil (23), Kosovo (20), Greece (17), Mexico (16), Indonesia (15), Croatia (14), Vietnam (14), South Korea (13), Poland (13), Bangladesh (12), Bulgaria (12), Morocco (12), Colombia (11), Egypt (10) and Nigeria (10).

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Faculties

Law 19 3 2,189 2Business, Economics and Information Systems 21 1 1,718 63Arts and Humanities 36 21 6,772 472

of which enrolled in bachelor’s and master’s programmes 4,852 378of which in enrolled in long-cycle teacher education programmes 1,915 94

Computer Science and Mathematics 18 4 1 1,175 208Enrolled doctoral students 263 28

Totals 94 28 2 12,117 773

* The majority of degree programmes start in the winter semester each year** Full-time equivalents

Provenance of enrolled students Bavaria 8,016 (66.1%)Other German states 2,676 (22.1%)Rest of the world 1,425 (11.8%)

Staff figure Total staff in primary occupation 1,119 (895 FTE**) of which academic staff 673 (539 FTE) academic support staff 446 (356 FTE)

Lecturers 336 (as at 1 February 2018)

C4/W3 Professors

C3/W2 Professors

W1 Pro-fessors

Matriculated students

Students currently in the first semester of their programme*

Worldwide partnerships with 235 universities and other higher education institutions (as at 1 April 2018)

Degree programmes

Faculty of Law

Long-cycle programmeLaw undergraduate programme (First State Examination for Jurists)

Master's programmesLL.M. German Law for foreign graduates

LL.M. German and Russian Law (double degree programme)

Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems

Bachelor's programmesB.Sc. Business Administration and Economics

B.Sc. Information Systems

Master's programmesM.A. International Economics and Business

M.Sc. Business Administration

M.Sc. Information Systems

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Bachelor's programmesB.A. European Studies

B.A. European Studies Major

B.A. Governance and Public Policy

B.A. Historical Cultural Studies

B.A. International Cultural and Business Studies

B.A. Journalism and Strategic Communication

B.A. Language and Text Sciences

B.A. Media and Communication

B.Ed. Secondary Education

Long-cycle programmes concluding with the 1st state examination for teachersPrimary Education Teacher Education Programme

Secondary Education (Mittelschule) Teacher Education Programme

Secondary Education (Realschule) Teacher Education Programme

Secondary Education (Gymnasium) Teacher Education Programme

Students currently in the first semester of their programme*

Master's programmesM.A. Caritas Science and Values-based Management

M.A. Development Studies (English-taught)

M.A. European Studies

M.A. Geography: Culture, Environment and Tourism

M.A. Governance and Public Policy

M.A. History

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 (English-taught)

M.A. Semiotics of Texts and Culture

M.Ed. Teaching and Learning Processes

Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics

Bachelor's programmesB.Sc. Computer Science

B.Sc. Internet Computing

B.Sc. Mathematics

B.Sc. Mobile and Embedded Systems

Master's programmes M.Sc. Computer Science (English-taught)

M.Sc. Computational Mathematics (English-taught)

M.Sc. Mobile and Embedded Systems (English-taught)

• 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 comprehensive range of careers and competencies training offers for students at all faculties

• Numerous exchange programmes with international partner universities

• 18 international double degree programmes for students enrolled in the following programmes: Law undergraduate programme; M.Sc. Business Administration; M.Sc. Computer Sci-ence; M.A. European Studies; LL.M. German and Russian Law; M.A. Governance and Public Policy; M.Sc. Information Systems; B.A. and M.A. International Cultural and Business Studies; and M.Sc. Mobile and Embedded Systems

Central facilities and services• Centre for Information Technology and Media Services (ZIM)• Graduate Centre• Language Centre• Passau International Centre for Advanced Interdisciplinary

Studies (PICAIS)• Sports Centre• Teacher Education Centre (ZLF)• Transfer Centre• University Library

Unique features of our degree programmes

For international students and researchers

German Courses Passau• Summer courses• Academic German Semester• Academic German Year• German Courses on Demand

The iStudi Coach (Study & Work Initiative) Study and careers adviser for international degree-seeking students at the University of Passau offering job-market coaching, networking and careers advisory services.

The Welcome Centre Advice and support for international academic staff and doctoral re-searchers as well as doctoral alumni from abroad.

Knowledge transfer

Transfer Centre• Initiation and co-ordination of research and development projects• Start-up coaching and Gründercafé (Start-up Café)• Continuing/further education courses• Topical public lecture series

Support for Early Career Researchers

The Graduate Centre• The first port of call for all organisational and interdisciplinary

matters regarding doctoral and postdoctoral research• Provides training and information in research methods, principles

of good academic practice, management of academic organisations, research and non-research career paths

• Administers grants for travel expenses and thesis publication

Our Research Training Groups and Junior Research Groups• Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (international research

training group of the Bavarian Elite Network)• Bavarian Research Training Group on Political Theory• BayWISS Consortium Research Training Groups in the areas of

digitalisation, mass media and communication• 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 Secure Systems (MDPS), which offers double doc-torate opportunities in Germany, France and Italy

• ZD.B Junior Research Groups in the areas of Software Engineer-ing and Business Information Systems

The Research Services Division• Provides information and individual advice on German, Euro-

pean and international funding programmes• Offers assistance with grant proposals (drafting and administra-

tive support)• Provides administrative support for research projects• Conducts contract negotiations

Map of Passau showing the university buildings

Contact information

University of Passau • Innstrasse 41 • 94032 Passau +49 851 5090 communication@uni-passau.de www.uni-passau.de/en/Design and DTP: Silke Roth, Mag.art. • Communication and Marketing Division