Increase in external funds
In the year 2015 Professors at German universities (excluding medical institutions) raised third-party funds on average of 257.600 Euro (+0,5% compared to 2014). Even the GSU as a small and specialised university procured 449.000 Euro and was under the top ten list of all universities.
The top ranked universities were RWTH Aachen, University of Stuttgart and the TU Munich.
(source: Federal Statistical Office (Destatis))