Country: Germany
Date of Foundation: 1919
International Rankings: • 2021 Shanghai ARWU: 201-300th rank (15th national rank) • 2022 Times Higher Education WUR: 132th rank • 2022 QS WUR: 214th rank
Awards & Honors: 4 Nobel Prizes (3 in Physics and 1 in Medicine/Physiology); 6 Leibniz Prizes.
Organisation: 8 Faculties (including one in Medicine), 27 Departments
Facts & Figures: • 44,000 students • 5,706 Research/Teaching staff & 7,747 Technical/Administrative staff.
Strengths: Earth/Environmental Sciences; Physics; Medical Technology, etc.
University of Excellence with 4 clusters in Advanced Imaging of Matter, Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CliCCS), Understanding Written Artefacts and Quantum Universe.
Large Scale Research Infrastructures: University of Hamburg is located close by European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) & Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron.
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