Membership statistics (record date 31th December 2018)
- Doctoral candidates in total: 503
- 458 doctoral candidates not working within a programme
- 45 doctoral candidates working within the doctoral programme for Theology
- 458 members are doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Humanities (approx. 91%).
- 45 members are doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Theology (approx. 9%).
- 157 members do not have German nationality (approx. 31%).
- Gender relation: 199 males (approx. 39%) und 304 females (approx. 61%).
- The doctoral candidates (“Junior Members“) are supervised by 483 “Senior Members“, 240 of which are members of the University of Göttingen (approx. 50 %).
Between 1st October and 31th December 2018, 8 members of the Faculty of Humanities finished their doctorate with the grades (dissertation) summa cum laude (2), magna cum laude (5), and cum laude (1). In the same period, no members of the Faculty of Theology finished their doctorate.