Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main: Statistics

Updated: May 30, 2026 EliteDegrees

Position	Category
# 442 of 10,210	In the World
# 188 of 2,786	In Europe
# 38 of 369	In Germany
# 4 of 22	In Hesse
# 1 of 8	In Frankfurt
# 14 of 9,995	For Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB-GYN)
Top 1-3	For 12 other topics

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Quick Review

Acceptance rate

50%

Enrollment

43,461

Type

Non-profit

Funding

Public-private partnership

Highest Degree

Doctorate

Website

goethe-university-frankfurt.de

Acceptance rate & Admissions

Acceptance Rate	50%
Academic Calendar	Semesters
Enrollment	43,461

We've calculated the 50% acceptance rate for Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main based on the ratio of admissions to applications and other circumstantial enrollment data. Treat this information as a rough guide and not as a definitive measure of your chances of admission. Different programs may have significantly varying admissions rates.

Programs and Degrees

The table below displays academic fields with programs and courses that lead to Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees offered by Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main.

Programs	Bachelor	Master	Doctoral
Art & Design	No	No	No
Biology	Yes	Yes	Yes
Business	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chemistry	Yes	Yes	Yes
Computer Science	Yes	Yes	Yes
Economics	Yes	Yes	Yes
Engineering	No	No	No
Environmental Science	Yes	Yes	Yes
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mathematics	Yes	Yes	Yes
Medicine	Yes	Yes	Yes
Physics	Yes	Yes	Yes
Psychology	Yes	Yes	Yes

Research profile

Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main is a world-class research university with 141,923 scientific papers published and 4,221,242 citations received. The research profile covers a range of fields, including Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Physics, Genetics, Engineering, Computer Science, Biochemistry, and Environmental Science.

Publications

141,923

Citations

4,221,242

Publication / Citation count by topic

Biology	74,116 / 2,990,063
Medicine	68,692 / 2,416,288
Chemistry	61,360 / 2,464,081
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences	48,952 / 1,148,460
Physics	47,697 / 1,577,379
Genetics	42,851 / 1,942,618
Engineering	42,353 / 1,404,901
Computer Science	40,220 / 1,500,503
Biochemistry	38,199 / 1,743,470
Environmental Science	34,322 / 1,104,588
Quantum and Particle physics	31,916 / 1,024,648
Philosophy	28,810 / 539,356
Organic chemistry	28,652 / 1,096,887
Psychology	28,229 / 1,119,956
Pathology	25,810 / 1,134,183
Political Science	21,693 / 426,833
Surgery	20,752 / 723,555
Geology	19,571 / 690,058
Materials Science	19,022 / 603,634
Immunology	17,274 / 761,768
Geography and Cartography	17,118 / 504,386
Mathematics	16,990 / 580,038
Psychiatry	16,817 / 702,973
Law	15,270 / 396,585
Paleontology	13,944 / 500,681
Neuroscience	13,836 / 612,694
Optics	13,572 / 408,565
Statistics	13,531 / 483,897
Sociology	13,386 / 425,646
Business	12,758 / 362,292
Ecology	12,732 / 493,428
Nuclear Physics	12,578 / 433,192
Radiology	12,399 / 427,167
History	12,294 / 316,463
Oncology	12,013 / 571,782
Economics	11,295 / 312,655
Linguistics	10,555 / 258,021
Archaeology	10,285 / 287,987
Artificial Intelligence (AI)	9,720 / 259,686
Astrophysics and Astronomy	9,065 / 302,016

Academic rankings

100 Notable alumni

1. Gerhard Hund

1932-2024 (aged 92)

business informatician Wikimedian chess player mathematician photographer

Gerhard Friedrich Hund was a German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist.

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2. Tabea Rößner

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Tabea Rößner is a German journalist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2025. In 2019, she unsuccessfully ran as the Green Party's candidate for Mayor of Mainz.

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3. Hilde Mangold

1898-1924 (aged 26)

biologist

Hilde Mangold was a German embryologist who was best known for her 1923 dissertation which was the foundation for her mentor, Hans Spemann's, 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the embryonic organizer, "one of the very few doctoral theses in biology that have directly resulted in the awarding of a Nobel Prize". The general effect...

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4. S. H. Foulkes

1898-1976 (aged 78)

psychiatrist psychoanalyst

S. H. Foulkes was a German-British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He developed a theory of group behaviour that led to his founding of group analysis, a variant of group therapy. He initiated the Group Analytic Society, and the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) in London. In 1933, owing to his Jewish and Welsh descent, Foulkes emigrated to England. In 1938, he...

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