Thirteen faculties form the academic basis of TUM. They represent a portfolio of subjects focusing on natural sciences, engineering sciences, life and food sciences and medicine that is virtually unrivaled. Technology-oriented business management and the TUM School of Education complete these focus areas.
The architects’ faculty plans, designs and builds - and is associated with renowned names such as Gottfried von Neureuther, Friedrich Thiersch, Robert Vorhoelzer, German Bestelmeyer, Hans Döllgast and Sep Ruf. Comprising 27 teaching and research units, the faculty encompasses both a wide and a diverse portfolio and places the emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach. The four-year Bachelor’s degree course incorporating a year spent abroad, combined with an extensive visiting professors program, introduces the approximately 1,200 architecture students to international concepts in their field. The Technical Center impresses with first-class studio facilities for building models and prototypes. The TUM Architecture Museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne is one of the best of its kind in the world. More
Construction · Infrastructure · Environment · Planet Earth: Civil and environmental engineers, geodesists and geologists at the TUM are visibly working together on the design of our civilization’s living space. The teaching and research programs also cover the energy aspects of sustainable planning and building. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) satellite project GOCE, which was largely designed at the TUM, will survey with hitherto unequaled accuracy the Earth’s gravity field in order to draw conclusions on the effects of climate around the globe, for example. Munich’s Oskar von Miller Forum of the Bavarian Construction Association provides an opportunity for interdisciplinary discourse. More
Germany’s number one in chemistry has produced several Nobel Prize winners. The department attracts many international visiting scientists and research cooperation partners from the industrial arena. The globalized labor market values its graduates as experienced, versatile generalists. The faculty’s subject portfolio covers all core and applied areas of modern chemistry, including chemical engineering and construction chemistry, electrochemistry, water chemistry and radiochemistry. In addition to outstanding expertise in biological chemistry, catalysis research based in the TUM Catalysis Research Center is the faculty’s interdisciplinary focus of research. More
The Deparment of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology is the largest and most researchstrong faculty of its kind in Germany. The nation-wide highest percentage of international students and visiting scientists is proof of the excellence for which it is renowned. The faculty’s outstanding reputation is attributable not least to its strong international ties, for example in the fields of energy technology, information and communications technology, and automation and automotive engineering. The Faculty’s professors include numerous IEEE fellows. Siemens AG has acted as one of its major industrial partners for decades. More
TUM Informatics is an international brand. Students not only learn how to design operational information systems for large enterprises, set up data networks between banks, develop traffic management systems and simulate technical and administrative processes. At the Cognitive Factory, they also design the production facilities of the future and develop new models for the interaction of people with “intelligent” machines. Modern software engineering has its origins at the TUM where mathematicians and engineers designed and built the first “program-controlled electronic computer Munich” (PERM) in 1956.. More
Today, mechanical engineering extends far beyond the traditional core subjects. It is linked closely with virtually all research areas at TUM, such as mechatronics, microsystems and medical engineering, bioprocess engineering, energy technology and power plant technology. Advanced automotive technologies (e.g. drive technology and electromobility) form the main focus, together with production engineering and aerospace technology, form the main focus. The institutes of the faculty closely collaborate with leading industry partners, especially from the automobile sector, but also with many small and medium sized enterprises. Aerospace technology at TUM brings together research and industrial partners in the Munich Metropolitan Region at the Munich Aerospace Center. More
TUM’s Medicine faculty is one of the leading teaching and research institutions in Germany. The university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar and the German Heart Centre Munich are much sought after for research-based health care in all fields of modern medicine. The TUM Medicine faculty has created its particular interdisciplinary effectiveness as a result of its links with the natural and engineering sciences. Although the faculty was only founded in 1967, it has repeatedly written medical history, for example with the world’s first double arm transplant in 2009. Future technologies in medical diagnostics are at the center of the research, as exemplified by early stage tumor detection in the “Centre for Advanced Laser Applications” (CALA), for example. More
Mathematics forms the scientific basis of TUM, with pioneers such as Walther von Dyck, Felix Klein and Friedrich L. Bauer. Today, the faculty is the paragon of Applied Mathematics in Germany. It has been honored on many occasions and has an outstanding team of internationally renowned professors. Together with informatics, it is frequently the driving force behind scientific progress in the natural, engineering and life sciences and in medicine. TUM’s financial mathematics activities are highly relevant for business and economy. More
The Physics Department is one of the major physics centers in Europe, offering a unique combination of basic and applied research. International scientists work at TUM in all areas of modern physics on questions of fundamental high-energy and astro physics, engineering physics, optics and the properties of solid and flexible materials, as well as biophysical challenges. The cooperation with a number of Max Planck institutes and other non-university research institutions is a particular feature. TUM physicists are based at the major transnational research centers, e.g. CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva and ILL (Institut Laue-Langevin) in Grenoble/France. Garching’s neutron physics is a magnet for top researchers across the globe. More
The faculty boasts one of the largest sports complexes in Europe, a legacy of the 1972 XXth Summer Olympic Games. The focus is on health science, linked on an interdisciplinary basis with other faculties including Medicine, Life and Food Sciences (Weihenstephan Science Center) and the TUM School of Education. An avant-garde approach is directed at research into preventive medicine and nutritional medicine. At the same time, the faculty acts as a service provider for the training of physical education teachers, and offers recreational sports facilities for students from all Munich universities. More
The TUM School of Education (2009) sets the “gold standard” in Germany for forward-looking teacher training. It manages and coordinates teacher training in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) across the university. The faculty draws its scientific profile from cross-disciplinary research, also conducting Germany’s International Comparative Studies of Education and Training. With an extensive school network, the faculty represents the University’s “backward integration” into the national school system. The TUM Otto von Taube- Kolleg at Gymnasium Gauting is a forerunner for new education formats at the school / university interface. More
This young faculty, founded in 2002, comes first among German business studies departments, says the 2012 Handelsblatt ranking. Moreover, it ranks as a European bastion of entrepreneurship research. Excellent professors, students selected to an exacting standard, and the TUMspecific management – technology – life science profile characterize its unique position. Research and teaching take place at the interfaces of natural and engineering sciences. Study is demanding in terms of scientific methodology, but has a practical orientation at the same time. It is specifically oriented towards ultimately occupying leading positions in the economic sector while also creating the entrepreneurial environment for spinoff companies arising from TUM. More
Biology is the key science here, while interdisciplinary research on the foremost subjects of this century – nutrition, land use, environment - is conducted at the largest of TUM’s faculties. Scientists work on safeguarding the quality and quantity of nutrition and gaining ecological, economic and social living space. Agricultural, forestry and environmental scientists, biologists, chemists, nutritional and food scientists, engineers and physicists research the entire life cycle of food and raw materials, from the genetic and biological bases to production to processing and consumption. More