Membership statistics (record date 31st March 2018)
- Doctoral candidates in total: 484
- 470 doctoral candidates not working within a programme
- 14 doctoral candidates working within one of the two incorporated programmes (candidates of the doctoral programme for Theology are listed depending on whether they work within a programme or individually)
- 433 members are doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Humanities.
- 51 members are doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Theology.
- 146 members do not have German nationality.
- Gender relation: 184 males, 300 females.
- The doctoral candidates (“Junior Members“) are supervised by 489 „Senior Members“, 242 of which are members of University of Göttingen.
Between 1st January and 31st March 2018, 10 members of the Faculty of Humanities finished their doctorate with the grades (dissertation) summa cum laude (1), magna cum laude (5), and cum laude (4). In the same period, two members of the Faculty of Theology finished their doctorate with the grades (dissertation) summa cum laude (1) and magna cum laude (1).