WIR in numbers
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences in numbers
The Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences has always preserved its character of a familiar teaching and learning place. And that despite strong growth in recent years. In the nationwide university landscape, this growth is not exceptional. In the 2002/2003 winter semester, approximately 1.9 million (mostly) young people studied at Germany's universities, in the 2019/2020 winter semester there were about 2.9 million students.
Here we present some key figures on Lower Saxony's largest university of applied sciences whose history dates back to the first half of the 20th century. For current figures on the university, please regularly refer to the "WIR in numbers (in German)" annual report.
Winter semester 2007/2008 (start of University Pact 2020): 7,535
Winter semester 2022/2023: 13.377
Winter semester 2023/2024: 12.906
Winter semester 2024/2025: 13.071
Winter semester 2024/25:
Faculty Business Management and Social Science (Caprivi-Campus): 5.517
Faculty Engineering and Computer Science (Campus Westerberg): 2.549
Faculty Management, Culture and Technology (Campus Lingen): 2.147
Faculty Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture (Campus Haste): 2.443
Institute for music (IfM Westerberg): 415
First-year students from Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen): 1.980
First-year students from North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen): 1.178
First-year students from the remaining German federal states: 293
First-year students from abraod (by HZB): 100
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences is committed to teaching intercultural competencies. To achieve this, the establishment and maintenance of an international network is obviously crucial. Valuable contacts all over the world have evolved over the decades, and they are summarised on this map.
133 total
Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences: 42
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture: 51
Faculty of Management, Culture and Technology: 12
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science: 28
Institute of Music: 0
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences plays an important regional role as employer.
In late 2024, the University of Applied Sciences had a total workforce of 1.413 employees; 724 women and 689 men.
