Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

• Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR)
• Cologne Center for Comparative Politics (CCCP)
• Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) 

Faculty of Law

• International Investment Law Centre Cologne
• CENTRAL - Center for Transnational Law
• European Centre for Liberal Professions
• Documentation Centre
• Competence Centre Legal Learning and Teaching

Faculty of Medicine

• Clinical Trials Centre Cologne (ZKS)

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

• CAS – Centre for Asia Studies
• Center for Language, Information and Philosophy (CLIP)
• Centro Latinoamericano de Colonia (CLAC)
• Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Cultures (Zakmira)
• Centre for Media Sciences and Modern Research (MeMo)
• Center for Medieval Studies (ZEMAK)
• Cologne African Studies Centre (CASC)
• Cologne-Bonn Centre for Central and Eastern Europe (CCCEE)
• Cologne Centre for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT)
• Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)
• Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS)
• Data Center for the Humanities (DCH)
• IFDG – Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Didactics in the Humanities
• Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies
• Wahn Castle Theatre Archive (Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung - TWS)

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

• Centre of Quaternary Science & Geoarchaeology (QSGA)

Faculty of Human Sciences

• Center for Diversity Studies
• Dewey-Center Cologne
• AAC Research and Consultation Center
• Research Centre for Intercultural Studies
• Center for Aging Studies (CEfAS)
• Interdisciplinary Center for Empirical Teacher and Teaching Research (IZeF)
• International Research Unit Disability Studies (iDiS)
• Center for Health Services Research Cologne
• Consulting Research Division