Technische Universität München

The Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) offers a wide range of studies in engineering, natural sciences, life and medical sciences and economics. TUM covers a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research. The course program contains about 140 courses of study, 98% with bachelor and master degrees. TUM has drawn up double diploma agreements with more than 20 universities and maintains partnerships with around 170 universities worldwide.
Today TUM comprises thirteen faculties with about 23,000 students (more than 10 percent of whom come from abroad), 430 professors and roughly 6,500 members of staff, academic and non-academic. TUM thus is well positioned along the value chain of creating new knowledge and know how. Since its inception in 1868, TUM established its reputation as a foremost academic institution with six nobel prizes and many other prestigious awards, making it repeatedly the Number One German Technical Uiversity in different rankings. From the German Science Council and the German Research Foundation TUM was awarded as one of the outstanding German research univiersities. Today, TUM counts not only the best German academics as its alumni, but also a great number of top executives of German industry. TUM commits itself to the mission statement of The Entrepreunerial University.