Technical University of Munich

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) ranks among Europe’s most outstanding universities in research, teaching and innovation – an achievement powered by its distinctive character as “Entrepreneurial University” that envisages itself as a global hub of knowledge exchange, open to society.

TUM’s range of disciplines covers computer sciences and engineering, natural sciences, life sciences and medicine, management and social sciences – a combination found nowhere else in the European Union. TUM leverages this enormous potential by intensively and intelligently combining the different subjects. This inspires modern fields of research extending from bioengineering to machine intelligence. At the same time, TUM links technological change more closely with social, political and ethical issues than other universities.

Its outstanding degree programs are strongly oriented towards research and, at the same time, tightly coupled to practical experience. Managers regularly choose TUM as one of the best universities worldwide for the quality of graduates.

TUM offers amazing opportunities at every level of study and research starting with the first semester right through to professorship. It invests more than other universities in the professional development of individual talent.

Every year, around 100 start-ups are founded at TUM, which acts as a key player in Munich’s high-tech ecosystem. TUM has long-term research partnerships with the most innovative global players. Some of them have established roots directly on campus.

TUM is an international university with a high proportion of foreign students and researchers as well as more than 150 partner universities. It is represented around the world by its TUM Asia campus in Singapore along with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Mumbai, San Francisco, São Paulo and Shenzhen.

Since 1868 Nobel Prize laureates and inventors such as Rudolf Diesel, Carl von Linde and Rudolf Mössbauer have conducted research at TUM. It was awarded the title of University of Excellence in 2006, 2012, 2019 and 2026.