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www.gdch.de/statistik
...is not just any publication of ours, but the most important annual publication of the GDCh (German Chemical Society). How many first-year students are there, where, how many students have completed their Master's degrees, how long do they actually study, and where do they all end up? With 60 pages, 20 graphs, and 38 tables, hardly any question remains unanswered.
Our statistics include data on Bachelor's and Master's degree programs as well as doctoral degrees in Chemistry/Business Chemistry, Biochemistry/Life Sciences, food chemistry (LM-Chemistry) and data on Chemistry degree programs at Universities of Applied Sciences (HAW).
The brochure "Statistics of Chemistry Degree Programs - A Survey by the GDCh on Chemistry Degree Programs at Universities and Colleges in Germany" is published annually in July. The brochure, containing all data, tables, and charts, is available as a PDF and can be downloaded free of charge.
Additionally, a graphical representation of the most important data will appear in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, issue 7/8 (2026).
Furthermore, on these pages you will find the most important statistics graphics as PDFs for download.
In the natural sciences, the dissertation in the form of a monograph has now been supplemented by the alternative of the cumulative variant. Cumulative dissertations are publication-based; that is, doctoral candidates can base their dissertation on publications in peer-reviewed journals on a thematically coherent topic. The requirements can be found in the examination regulations of the respective university. Differences exist, for example, in the required number of publications and the relevance of authorship/first authorship.
According to the GDCh survey of German universities, a cumulative doctorate in chemistry is possible at 47 out of 55 universities, and in biochemistry at 22 out of 35 universities.
There is hardly any other value that universities fight as hard as they do for length of study. After all, short study periods are an important plus point in the competition for students. The median values, also known as 50% values, are calculated from the information provided by the universities so that individual students who need significantly longer to finish their exams than the average due to illness, part-time jobs or other reasons do not "spoil" the value of their university. They ensure that particularly slow students, but also the "high-flyers" with extremely short study times, are not taken into account, and allow a better comparison of study times than the arithmetic average. You can read here what the median value is exactly and how it is calculated.
the statistics of the Habilitation, junior professors and women among the junior Hochschullehrer- more
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last modified: 30.06.2026 12:41 H from Y.Yasin
