[8][9] As of August 2023, the University of Luxembourg's enrollment was 7000 students, including 1000 doctoral candidates, 2,400 staff, and 293 professors and senior lecturers.Research at the university focus on the areas of digital transformation, medicine and health, as well as sustainable and societal development.In 2020, the university founded the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), which primarily promotes interdisciplinary research projects.[17] PhD students and postdoctoral researchers work on fixed-term contracts that cannot exceed five years.Newly recruited research scientists and professors are generally hired from abroad,[18] with no internal promotion path from postdoctoral to senior positions.
An aerial image of the University of Luxembourg campus in Kirchberg