The responsible body of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences is the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg gGmbH (Katholische Hochschule Freiburg gGmbH).
1700 enrolled students are supported by 34 professors in teaching, research and executive education.
The first Social Studies schools were founded in Freiburg after the end of World War I.
The qualification of its staff has always been of central importance to the founder of the German Caritas association (Deutscher Caritasverband), Lorenz Werthmann.
For the winter semester 2012/13, the tuition fees for the Bachelor programmes at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg were reduced from €500 to €280.