An Introduction to world renowned Goettingen university

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (founded in 1737): This is the university first established by the King (probably the British king) in 1737. He had established two other universities in the world. One in Columbia and another one in the USA.

Key data about the university: We have
• 13 faculties, 180 institutes
• 24,600 students
• 11.6 % students from abroad (new entrants: approximately 20 %)
• 13,000 employees (including Medicine), of whom 404 professors
• 114 programmes of study (71 Bachelor / 22 Master)

(43 people linked with university won Nobel prize)
Thirteen Faculties: The university has following thirteen faculties
• Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
• Faculty of Biology (including Psychology)
• Faculty of Chemistry
• Faculty of Forestry and Forest Ecology
• Faculty for Geosciences and Geography
• Faculty of Mathematics
• Faculty of Physics
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Philosophy
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Economic Sciences
• Faculty of Theology

Expense and revenue as per 2006:

• 333 million euro - University excluding Medicine
• 451 million euro - School of Medicine
• (more than 70 percent of our whole national budget of Nepal)

Financial support from the Federal State 2006

• 194 million euro - University excluding Medicine (after cuts of 9 million euro)
• 126 million euro - School of Medicine (after cuts of 5 million euro)

Rankings and Competition:
• DFG Research Ranking (assessment period 2001-2005): Rank 12 of 84 universities
• AvH-Stiftung 2006 (attractiveness for top-level researchers 2001-2005): Rank 7 of 80 universities
• DAAD Ranking 2005 : Rank 4 of 100 universities
• Subjects constantly occupying very good or good positions in rankings: Chemistry, Biology, Geosciences, German Literature and Linguistics, History, Mathematics, Physics and Sociology
• Reputation abroad: Times World League for Science 2004 (worldwide : Rank 26 of 100, Germany : Rank 2)
• Shanghai Ranking 2005 (worldwide: Rank 84 of 500, Europe: Rank 28 von 100, Germany: Rank 4)
Our Library: Göttingen State and University Library (SUB):
• Foundation of the Göttingen University Library in 1734
• One of the largest libraries in Germany
• “Library of the Year 2002” (Deutscher Bibliotheksverband and ZEIT-Stiftung)
• Holdings: 5.5 m. volumes, 1.4 m. microform items, 16,000 current journal subscriptions, 13,000 manuscripts, 3,100 incunabulae, 220,000 maps, 350 scholars’ legacies, more than 300 on-line and CD-ROM databases, extensive digital holdings.
• Approx. 4,000 users per day in the SUB new building, opened in 1993
• The Göttingen Digitisation Centre (GDZ) makes valuable literary holdings digitally accessible (e.g. the Göttingen Gutenberg Bible).
• DigiZeitschriften brings on-line 3 million pages from academic journals
• Collections: Manuscript collection, map collection, Asch collection