In 2018, the faculty was again more successful than the University of Stuttgart as a whole in attracting third-party funding. In September 2020, the Federal Statistical Office Destatis in Wiesbaden published the amount of third-party funding that was raised at German universities in 2018 (more recent comparative figures are only available internally). The press release states:
"Professors at German universities raised third party funds of an average of 281,700 euros each. To allow comparisons between universities with and without medical institutions, medical institutions/health sciences of universities are not included here, one of the reasons being their high third-party funds."
The subject group with the highest third-party funding per professorship in 2018 was engineering with €599,400, followed by human medicine including health sciences (€591 thousand). Humanities and law, economics and social sciences follow with good and just under 139 T€, respectively.
At 643,700 euros, the third-party funding of the University of Stuttgart is again far more than twice as high as the average and ranks third among all German universities. A total of 22,8 million euros raised by all employees of the faculty is an increase of more than 11% over the previous year. The resulting 951,200 euros per professorship is more than 45% above the university average and more than 58% above the average third-party funding per professorship in engineering.