Education, Science and Culture
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny© Oper Leipzig, Andreas Birkigt
Schools of general education and vocational schools (2017/2018)
Type of schools | Number | Pupils / Students |
---|---|---|
Primary schools | 77 | 20,063 |
Secondary modern schools | 30 | 11,799 |
Grammar schools | 23 | 14,909 |
Special schools | 19 | 2,559 |
Free Waldorf School | 2 | 646 |
Second-chance Education | 3 | 812 |
Vocational centres | 9 | 11,271 |
Medical vocational school | 1 | 251 |
Another vocational schools | 31 | 7,208 |
Colleges and universities (winter term 2017/2018)
Institution | Students |
---|---|
Total number of students | 39,097 |
Leipzig University | 28,797 |
Leipzig University of Applied Sciences | 5,884 |
Leipzig University of Telecommunications | 1,445 |
University of Music and Theatre „F.M. Bartholdy“ | 1,151 |
HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management | 669 |
Academy of Visual Arts | 547 |
FOM University | 426 |
Vitruvius University | 178 |
Visitors in selected cultural institutions (2018)
Institution | Visitors |
---|---|
Gewandhaus Concert Hall | 291,928 |
Leipzig Opera | 193,307 |
Schauspiel Leipzig | 106,280 |
St Thomas’s Boys Choir („Thomaner“; 2017) | 83,804 |
Theater der Jungen Welt | 66,496 |
Cabaret „academixer” | 62,526 |
Cabaret „Funzel” | 21,427 |
Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig (Museum of Municipal History) | 108,542 |
Monument to the Battle of the Nations | 269,239 |
Forum of Contemporary History | 202,742 |
Museum of Fine Arts | 120,856 |
Museum in the "Round Corner" | 119,479 |
GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts | 73,675 |
GRASSI Museum of Ethnography | 48,716 |
GRASSI Museum of Musical instruments | 28,816 |
Gallery of Contemporary Art | 66,640 |
Bach Archive Leipzig | 50,782 |
Natural History Museum | 50,363 |
Museum in the Mendelssohn House | 35,075 |
Egyptian Museum | 18,121 |
Zoo Leipzig | 1,723,180 |
Leipzig Municipal Library (2018)
Vistitors | 1,136,846 |
Units lent | 4,973,733 |
Media | 759,392 |
Sources: Statistical Offices of the city of Leipzig and of the Free State of Saxony