Tuition Fees

Since the summer semester 2007, the state of Lower Saxony collects tuition fees in the amount of € 500 per semester. Through this, the university’s revenue has increased by approximately € 14 million which is used for the improvement of study and teaching.

Half of the contributions flows into central (university-wide) measures and its usage is decided upon directly at university level.
The other half is made available to the faculties. The distribution of these decentralized funds is based on the number of students liable to contributions of the respective faculties.

The Faculty of Humanities is one of the largest at the University of Göttingen. About 4,500 students are enrolled at more than 30 departments, institutes and centers of the Faculty of Humanities.
Due to the high number of graduations, the faculty has a budget of € 700,000 per semester, which is used faculty-wide to improve study and teaching.


Application

Every member of the Faculty of Humanities (students, teachers, administrative staff) may submit proposals for the use of decentralized tuition fees!

The most important rules for the use of tuition fees are:

• Limitation to a specific purpose
• Substitution is prohibited
• Transparency requirement
• Capacity neutrality

If you have a concrete idea of how the tuition fees for the improvement of study and teaching at the Faculty of Humanities can be used, please fill in
the application form
and send it to the responsible controlling department
(klemens.wedekind@zvw.uni-goettingen.de).

Always desirable and especially welcome are suggestions and ideas from students which can be submitted directly or through your department!