Membership statistics (record date 30th March 2018)
- Doctoral candidates in total: 502
- 448 doctoral candidates not working within a programme
- 53 doctoral candidates working within the doctoral programme for Theology.
- 1 doctoral candidate working within the MWK-funded doctoral programme TMTG.
- 448 members are doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Humanities (89%).
- 51 members are doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Theology (11%).
- 151 members do not have German nationality (30%).
- Gender relation: 179 males (38%), 280 females (62%).
- The doctoral candidates (“Junior Members“) are supervised by 472 „Senior Members“, 215 of which are members of University of Göttingen.
Between 1st April and 30th June 2018, 12 members of the Faculty of Humanities finished their doctorate with the grades (dissertation) summa cum laude (6), magna cum laude (5), and cum laude (1). In the same period, three members of the Faculty of Theology finished their doctorate with the grades (dissertation) magna cum laude (2) and cum laude (1).