Key figures

- Founded in 1614
- 11 faculties (1 in the Frisian capital of Leeuwarden)
- 6,100 fte staff (including University Medical Center Groningen, UMCG)
- More than 120 nationalities
- 135,000 alumni
- 900 million EUR budget
Education (2019)
- 36,024 students
- 8,575 international students
- >120 English-taught Master's degree programmes
- > 45 Bachelor's degree programmes, of which >35 taught in English
Research (2019)
- 3,400 fte academic staff
- One third of our academic staff is international
- 400 full professors
- 3,200 PhD candidates (56% international)
- 550 PhD theses
- 9,000 research publications
- 18 patent applications
Prizes and grants
- Nobel Prize for Prof. Ben Feringa
- Spinoza Prize for Prof. Pauline Kleingeld, Prof. Amina Helmi, Prof. Lodi Nauta, Prof. Bart van Wees, Prof. Cisca Wijmenga, and Prof. Theunis Piersma
- Stevin Prize for Prof. Linda Steg
- 13 Veni Grants and 3 Vidi Grants awarded in 2019
- 3 ERC Starting Grants, 2 Consolidator Grants, and 2 Proof of Concept Grants awarded in 2019
More information
- Societal research priorities: Energy, Healthy Ageing and Sustainable Society
- Partnerships
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