In the overall ranking, the UAS Potsdam is positioned in the 2nd out of 8. Brandenburg also continues to stand out in the state ranking, in particular due to a comparatively high proportion of women in professorships; at 33.04%, Brandenburg is in 2nd place behind Berlin. The UAS Potsdam thus once again received excellent ratings for its gender equality activities following the award of the title as part of the Female Professors Programme 2030 in February 2025.

The current ranking included data from the year 2023. A total of 307 universities were assessed in the areas of students, doctorates, post-doctoral academic qualifications, academic and artistic staff and professorships. Changes over time in academic and artistic staff and professorships were also taken into account. The indicators follow the logic of the cascade model. The reference values are the proportion of female students and the proportion of female doctorates in the relevant subject groups. With the current ranking, the methodology for assigning universities to the three ranking groups has been fundamentally revised.

Since its creation in 2003, the CEWS ranking, which is published every two years, has established itself as a component of quality assurance for equality at universities. The aim of the ranking is to compare the performance of universities in terms of gender equality on an ongoing and nationwide basis with the help of quantitative indicators.
The ranking is based exclusively on data from official university statistics. Self-reported information from the universities is not collected. This procedure guarantees the comparability and high quality of the ranking.

Further information
University ranking according to gender equality aspects: CEWS/publik - Studien und Datenberichte zur Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in Wissenschaft und Forschung | GESIS

L?ther, Andrea (2025): Hochschulranking nach Gleichstellungsaspekten 2025. ed. by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: Cologne (CEWS/publik no. 34). https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.103043

FHP receives predicate award in the Female Professors Programme 2030: /aktuelles-medien/news/professorinnenprogramm-2030-fhp-erhaelt-praedikatsauszeichnung-gleichstellungskonzept