at the end of 2018, hu had a total of 3,329 employees. of this number, 2,268 worked as an educator and/or researcher and 1,061 people worked as support staff. in the year in question, 93% of the academic staff had a master's degree and 12% had obtained a doctorate. at the end of 2018, 43 professors were working on practice-oriented research while 94 staff members were working on doctoral research.