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Degree courses

• 37 Bachelor's degree courses (plus 3 Bachelor's degree courses with the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology)
  • 3 cooperative degree programmes
  • 10 with the option to complete a cooperative degree programme
• 35 Master's degree courses (including 4 professional continuing education degree courses)

_{Figures for winter semester 2021/22.}

Students

• 16,879 students enrolled in winter semester 2021/22 
  • female students: 7,322 (43 per cent)
  • male students: 9,544 (57 per cent)
  • inter/diverse: 13 (0.1 per cent)
  • international students: 2,168 (13 per cent)
• 160 doctoral students 

_{Figures for winter semester 2021/22.}

First-year students

• HAW Hamburg total: 4,352

Applications for study places for the 2021 academic year

• 17,137

_{Last updated: 1 December 2021.}

Degrees awarded and doctoral dissertations completed (in 2021 academic year)

• Total: 2,590
  • Bachelor's degrees: 1,947
  • Master's degrees: 634 (of these, professional continuing education Master's degrees: 41)
  • Doctoral dissertations completed: 14 (total to date: 185)

_{Last updated: 1 December 2021.}

Total staff: 1,413

• 404 in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
• 227 in the Faculty of Life Sciences
• 182 in the Faculty of Design, Media and Information
• 226 in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
• 655 female staff (46.4 per cent)
• 758 male staff (53.6 per cent)

The total staff is composed of the following groups:*

Professors: 412

• 163 in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
• 89 in the Faculty of Life Sciences
• 72 in the Faculty of Design, Media and Information
• 88 in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
• 131 female professors (31.8 per cent)
• 281 male professors (68.2 per cent)

Academic staff: 468

• 160 in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
• 90 in the Faculty of Life Sciences
• 79 in the Faculty of Design, Media and Information
• 98 in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
• 277 female academic staff (59.2 per cent)
• 291 male academic staff (40.8 per cent)

Technical, administrative and library staff: 552

• 84 in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
• 50 in the Faculty of Life Sciences
• 32 in the Faculty of Design, Media and Information
• 41 in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
• 341 female staff (41.3 per cent)
• 211 male staff (38.2 per cent)

In addition, there are also:

483 sessional instructors

• 99 in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
• 122 in the Faculty of Life Sciences
• 131 in the Faculty of Design, Media and Information
• 171 in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
• 216 female instructors (41.3 per cent)
• 307 male instructors (58.7 per cent)

_{Last updated: 1 December 2021.}

_{* The difference between the overall number of staff and the total resulting from the number of professors, academic staff and technical, administrative and library staff is due to the fact that some employees have two employment contracts.}

Budget (2022)*

• €94,059,732 (previous year: €92,807,000)

_{* Subject to the City of Hamburg Senate's decision on the 2022/2023 budget.}

External funding (2021)

• €17,050,209 (previous year: €16,616,876)

_{Source: University financial statistics.}

The Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science is the largest faculty at HAW Hamburg, teaching approximately 6,000 students in four departments and 21 degree courses. It addresses important societal issues such as the mobility of the future, digitialisation and sustainable energy supply. We ensure students' professional success not only by imparting the necessary technical and academic knowledge, but also by facilitating their practical application of this knowledge in labs and companies.

Our faculty is led by the dean's office, which is advised and overseen by a faculty council. The faculty administration supports the faculty in carrying out its work. The dean's office, the administrative offices, the departments, and the research and transfer centres are all located at the Berliner Tor Campus, facilitating close collaboration.

Facts and figures (winter semester 2021/22)

• 163 professors
• 99 instructors
• 160 academic staff
• 84 technical and administrative staff
• 5,994 students

Degree courses

• 21 degree courses in total
• 11 Bachelor's degree courses (1 consisting of a standard degree course and a completely separate cooperative Bachelor's degree programme, and 9 with the option of integrating the cooperative degree structure)
• 10 Master's degree courses

More information about the degree courses that are also offered as cooperative degree programmes.

Departments
Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering
Computer Science
Information and Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering and Production Management

To the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

The Faculty of Life Sciences is home to degree courses that are directly related to the basic elements of people's lives. The spectrum of subjects ranges from health and nutrition sciences to the natural sciences and engineering.

Facts and figures (winter semester 2021/22)

• 89 professors
• 122 instructors
• 90 academic staff
• 50 technical and administrative staff
• 3,841 students

Degree courses

• 18 degree courses
• 9 Bachelor's degree courses (1 cooperative Bachelor's degree programme, 1 inter-university Bachelor's degree)
• 9 Master's degree courses

Departments
Biotechnology
Health Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Nutrition and Home Economics
Environmental Engineering
Process Engineering
Industrial Engineering and Management (offered jointly with the Universität Hamburg)

To the Faculty of Life Sciences

The Faculty of Design, Media and Information offers degree courses in a range of areas, including design courses, media technology courses such as light and sound design and games design, and information and media courses. The instructors have backgrounds in both academia and the field. Using contemporary teaching methods, they illustrate complex interrelationships in a understandable way and facilitate reflective practice.

Since fall 2010, the Faculty of Design, Media and Information (DMI) has been housed at the Hamburg Arts and Media Campus and the Armgartstraße Campus.

Facts and figures (winter semester 2021/22)

• 72 professors
• 131 instructors
• 79 academic staff
• 32 technical and administrative staff
• 3,007 students

Degree courses

• 16 degree courses in total
• 8 Bachelor's degree courses
• 8 Master's degree courses (one of which is offered jointly with the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences)

Departments
Design
Media Technology
Information

To the Faculty of Design, Media and Information

In the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, approximately 4,000 students in four departments and 20 degree courses acquire the practice-based skills and knowledge necessary to identify sustainable solutions to the central challenges facing society. The four departments cover the areas of nursing and management, public management, social work and childhood education, and business.

The faculty is led by the dean's office, which is guided and overseen by the faculty council and other advisory bodies and individuals. The faculty administration supports the academics and students in carrying out their teaching, research and studies.

All of the faculty's five entities, including the research and transfer centres, are located at the Berliner Tor Campus.

Facts and figures (winter semester 2021/22):

• 88 professors
• 171 instructors
• 98 academic staff
• 41 technical and administrative staff
• 4,108 students

Degree courses

• 18 degree courses
• 9 Bachelor's degree courses (one offered jointly with the Department of Computer Science)
• 9 Master's degree courses (3 professional continuing education Master's degree courses, and 1 offered jointly with the Faculty of Design, Media and Information)

Departments
Nursing and Management
Public Management
Social Work
Business

To the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences