University of Groningen - Facts & Figures

Facts & Figures

• 27,699 students
• 6,213 first-year students (10,3% share of Dutch market)
• 4,897 fte employees (including University Medical Center Groningen: UMCG)
• 413 professors (including UMCG)
• 1,500 PhD students (including UMCG)
• 58 bachelor's and 114 master's degree programmes
• 82 master's degree programmes (of which 10 double degree programmes) are taught in English
• 9 bachelor's degree programmes are taught in English
• 16 research master's programmes
• 9 faculties, 9 graduate schools
• 550 mln euro annual turnover

The University of Groningen is in the top 3 of European research universities in the fields of: Ecology, Material Sciences, Chemistry and Astronomy. Other strong research groups are in: Nanoscience, Physics, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Medical Sciences, Neurosciences, Sociology, Philosophy, Theology, Archaeology and Arts. Every year more than 5,000 research publications go to print and an average of 260 PhD students are awarded their PhD degree.

• The University of Groningen is a member of the so-called Excellence Group of the best universities in Europe. The Excellence Group has 56 members, which is 1.3 percent of the approximately 4,500 European institutions of higher education.
• The University of Groningen belongs to the top 100 large comprehensive research universities in the world.
• In 2012–2013, the University of Groningen ranked 89th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
• The University of Groningen is worldwide on shared position 101 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). ARWU is a global Top 500 published annually by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• The University was ranked 59th in the world by Global University Ranking in 2009
• Groningen was internationally ranked by QS World University Rankings, and gained the position of 115th.
• The University of Groningen holds the 36th position in the European ranking of Webometrics.

The University's mathematics centre houses an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer for the LOFAR project.