Internationally attractive

The University of Oldenburg is very attractive for foreign researchers. It climbed to 29th place in the latest Humboldt Ranking - a significant indicator of the intensity of international co-operation.

The Humboldt Ranking shows how many academics have come to Germany in the past five years with a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - and where they have spent their research stay particularly frequently. With 25 Humboldt scholarship holders, the University of Oldenburg was ranked 29th out of a total of 79 universities nationwide. In the previous ranking in 2012, it was still in 43rd place
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"With this result, the University of Oldenburg also leaves universities of excellence behind. It shows that we are on the right track with our internationalisation strategy and that we have been able to further strengthen academic exchange in recent years," emphasises the provisional University President Prof. Dr Katharina Al-Shamery.

The first three places were once again taken by Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The ranking takes into account guest stays by top international and early career researchers and relates them to the total number of professorships at the respective university.