Membership statistics (record date: 30st September 2018)
- Doctoral candidates in total: 478
- 439 doctoral candidates not working within a programme
- 39 doctoral candidates working within the doctoral programme for Theology
- 439 members are doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Humanities (app. 92%).
- 39 members are doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Theology (app. 8%).
- 145 members do not have German nationality (app. 30%).
- Gender relation: 185 males (app. 39%), 293 females (app. 61%).
- The doctoral candidates (“Junior Members”) are supervised by 493 “Senior Members”, 248 of which are members of University of Göttingen (app. 50%).
Between 1st July and 30th September 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, no members of the Faculty of Theology finished their doctorate.