List of Academic Ranks - Germany

Germany

Appointment grades

  • Professor (Pay grade: W3)
  • Professor (W2)
  • Hochschuldozent (W2, only in Baden-Württemberg)
  • Juniorprofessor (not tenured) (W1)
  • Juniordozent (not tenured) (W1, only in Baden-Württemberg)
  • Akademischer Rat/Oberrat/Direktor auf Lebenszeit (A13, A14, A15)
  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter auf Zeit, Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (TVöD, A13 a.Z.)
  • Akademischer Mitarbeiter auf Zeit (TVöD only in Baden-Württemberg)
  • Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (TdL)
  • Studentische Hilfskraft (TdL)

Non-appointment grades

  • Privatdozent
  • Außerplanmäßiger Professor (conferred, in some German States, to a Privatdozent, who has been in service for several years, without formally being appointed as professor.)

Administrative ranks

  • Rektor, Präsident - rector or president, highest representative of the university or Polytechnic, elected
  • Prorektor, Vizepräsident, prorector or vice president, elected
  • Kanzler - chancellor, administrative head, often a permanent job
  • Dekan - dean, elected
  • Institutsdirektor - head of department, elected

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