Overview

• Brandenburg’s science minister says 24 professorial appointment procedures are underway toward a planned roster of about 80 professors at full scale.
• Applications are arriving from the United States, South Korea, Australia and several European countries, not just from within Germany.
• The first cohort of 36 medical students is slated to enroll in the winter semester of 2026/2027.
• Financing totals nearly €4 billion from federal and state sources with disbursements planned through 2038, and officials say this will not reduce funding for the state’s eight other public universities as 2025 base funding rose by nearly 11%.
• The Medizinische Universität Lausitz – Carl Thiem is tasked with strengthening primary care through a planned 10% rural‑doctor quota and will anchor a digital health network built around Cottbus’s Carl‑Thiem‑Klinikum.