[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.

Since creation in 2006, the university has been awarded 15 ERC grants and it has established 22 industrial, public and public-private chairs, with 16 endowed chairs ongoing.In March 2021, the University of Luxembourg had 1,000 ongoing research projects and 114 Horizon 2020 projects.

[10] While women make up 50% of PhD students, they represent only 39% of research scientists and just 21% of full professors.

[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.