...isn't just any publication from us, but the most important annual publication of the GDCh. How many first-year students are there where, how many students have completed their master's degree, how long does the program actually take, and where do they all fit in? With 60 pages, 20 charts, and 38 tables, hardly any question remains unanswered.
Our statistics include data from Bachelor's and Master's degree programs as well as doctorates in Chemistry/Business Chemistry, Biochemistry/Life Sciences, food chemistry (LM Chemistry) and data from chemistry degree programs at universities of applied sciences (HAW).
The brochure "Statistics of Chemistry Degree Programs - A GDCh Survey 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 flip catalog and can be downloaded free of charge.
In addition, a graphical representation of the most important data will appear in Nachrichten aus der Chemie, issue 7/8 (2025).
Furthermore, you will find the most important graphics from the statistics as PDF downloads on these pages.
In natural sciences, the dissertation in monograph form has now been supplemented by the cumulative variant. Cumulative dissertations are publication-based; that is, doctoral candidates can support their dissertation with publications that have been published in peer-reviewed journals on a related topic. The requirements can be found in the examination regulations of the respective university. There are differences, for example, in the required number of publications and the relevance of authorship/first authorship.
According to the GDCh survey at German universities, a cumulative doctorate in chemistry is possible at 49 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.
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