The University Hospital Tübingen was opened in 1805 and has been a public law institution since 1998 with a Board of Directors and a Supervisory Board. According to the 2017 patient survey, 97 percent of inpatients would recommend us to others!
The University Hospital
Facts and figures on health care

Infrastructure
- 17 Hospitals
- Medical Care Centres
- 13 Institutes of Indirect Health Care
- 16 Interdisciplinary Centres
- Catchment area from the conurbation Middle Neckar to Lake Constance
Function
- House of maximum care
- Center of University Medicine
- Function of a district hospital for the city and district of Tübingen
Focal points
- Tumour centre
- Perinatological Centre
- Social Pediatric Centre
- Geriatric centre
- Transplant centre for kidney, liver and pancreas transplants as well as intestinal and multivisceral transplants
- Supra-regional pain centre
- Focus on cardiology and heart surgery with pediatric heart surgery
- Focus on neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology with stroke unit
The clinic in figures




Facts and figures on research

Neurosciences
- Excellence Cluster Centre of Intergrative Neuroscience CIN
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
- Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HiH)
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
- SFB 1233
- FOR 1847
- FOR 2715
Infection biology
- German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)
- SFB 766
- SFB/TR 34
- SPP 1656
- Research Training Group 1708
- Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine (IMIT)
Oncology, Immunology
- Southwest German Tumor Center - Comprehensive Cancer Center Tübingen-Stuttgart (CCC)
- German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)
- SFB/TR 156
- FO/TR 2314
- FOR 2497
Vascular Medicine/Diabetes
- German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD)
- Centre for Nutritional Medicine Tübingen - Hohenheim (ZEM)
- Clinical Research Unit 274
Medical technology
- Interuniversity Centre for Medical Technologies Stuttgart Tübingen (IZST)
- Zeiss Vision Science Lab - Werner Siemens Science Center
Research in figures




Facts and figures on teaching

Didactics
- Competence Center for University Didactics in Medicine Baden-Württemberg
- Interdisciplinary Training Center DocLab
- Consistent evaluation of teaching in all degree programmes
International exchange
- International exchange (University of Queensland, Brown University, Erasmus program etc.)
- International Summer School "Comparative Medical Ethics" and Winter School "Critical Care"
Internationalized financial statements
- Bachelor's programme "Molecular Medicine", Master's programme "Molecular Medicine".
- Bachelor's degree in "Medical Technology", Master's degree in "Biomedical Technologies", Master's degree in "Medical Radiology".
- PHD course of studies Experimental Medicine
- Neuroscientific Master's Courses
Doctorate and Graduate Funding
- Graduate Training Centre with the neuroscientific master programmes: Neuro- & Behavioural Science, Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, Neural Information Processing and a Joint PhD Program
- IZKF Doctoral College
The teaching in numbers




Economic key data
Hospital
Total proceeds health-care (in T€)
| 2010→432.858 | 2011→442.906 | 2012→465.596 | 2013→490.817 | 2014→517.029 | 2015→542.506 | 2016→570.802 | 2017→609.188 | 2018→632.099 | 2019→666.651 | 2020→729.641 |
Balance sheet total (in T€)
| 2010→822.037 | 2011→830.345 | 2012→832.932 | 2013→851.837 | 2014→860.150 | 2015→893.947 | 2016→890.639 | 2017→912.658 | 2018→916.034 | 2019→936.046 | 2020→992.599 |
Faculty
State grant for research and teaching (in T€)
| 2010→95.563,6 | 2011→98.101,5 | 2012→99.889,7 | 2013→103.408,9 | 2014→105.373,2 | 2015→112.748,8 | 2016→114.911 | 2017→117.006,0 | 2018→122.251,8 | 2019→126.420 | 2020→135.992 |
Third-party funds (in T€)
| 2010→73.233 | 2011→71.912 | 2012→88.400 | 2013→82.354 | 2014→91.078,6 | 2015→97.706,4 | 2016→90.440,8 | 2017→107.948,8 | 2018→101.965,6 | 2019→108.370,4 | 2020→124.976 |
Subsidery enterprises & enterprise participation
- U.D.O. Universitätsklinikum Dienstleistungsorganisation GmbH
- UKT Energie Gesellschaft mbH (UEG)
- EK UNICO GmbH
- Zentrum für Klinische Transfusionsmedizin gGmbH
- Universitätsklinikum Zentrum für Physiotherapie gGmbH (UZP)
- ZAR Tübingen am Universitätsklinikum GmbH
- QMBW GmbH
- MVZ-UKT gGmbH
- Universitätsmedizin Gesellschaft für Forschung und Entwicklung mbH (UFE)
Certificates and Associations

Focus: Top Nationales Krankenhaus 2023

Kooperation für Transparenz und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen

Qualitätspartnerschaft mit der PKV

Erfolgsfaktor Familie

Die Altersvorsorge für den Öffentlichen Dienst