The state as an employer is likely to be pleased: professors in Germany attract on average more third-party funding, as they cost of salary. Every chairholder at a university received an average of 266,200 euros in external research grants last year. This is shown by an evaluation by the Federal Statistical Office.
Compared to 2016, this was an increase of 3.2 percent. Medical facilities at universities are not included. According to the statisticians, they occupy a special position and have significantly higher third party funds. Each professor of a medical institution advertised an average of 587,300 euros.
In total, the universities - without administrative colleges - received third-party funding of around € 7.8 billion in 2017. Third-party funds are mainly raised for individual research projects or research areas.
- In 2017, RWTH Aachen received most of the third-party funding: it collected 294 million euros.
- In second place is the Technical University of Munich , which last year raised € 276 million in third-party funds.
- On a third-party volume of 210 million euros came the TU Dresden .
The subject group with the highest third-party funding per professor at the universities was in 2017 with 579,600 euros, the human medicine. Second place went to engineering with 579,400 euros.
Third-party funds were considerably lower at 132,100 euros per professor in the humanities, law, economics and social sciences, averaging 125,300 euros.
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Revenues from third-party funds at other, non-university universities were once again significantly lower: at the universities of applied sciences, the average sum per professor was 33,500 euros and at art colleges 19,500 euros.