TUM in figures

Key figures about our university at a glance.

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53.000 Students

are enrolled at our university in the winter semester 2024/25. Of them, 36% are female students, 45% have come from abroad for their eduction at TUM.

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666 Professors

research and teach at TUM. We have appointed 277 professors from universities abroad (as of 2006–2023).

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7 Schools

form the academic foundation of our university, connected by Integrative Research Institutes at the interfaces between disciplines.

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12,051 Employees

are working at TUM and its university hospital, 7,883 of which are academic staff.

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7 Global locations

are instrumental for the internationalization of TUM, including a campus for research and teaching in Singapore.

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92,500 Alumni

make up our worldwide alumni network. 9,532 new graduations were awarded in the academic year 2022/23.

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10,595 Publications

by TUM academics appeared in 2023 in international journals (peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, reviews; source: Scopus 2024).

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1,162 Doctorates

were awarded by TUM in the academic year 2022/23. A doctorate at TUM combines individual research work with the structured qualification offered by the TUM Graduate School.

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480 mio. Euros third-party funding

for research and teaching was secured in accounting year 2023 making TUM one of German’s top- ranked universities.

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85 Start-up companies

were founded at TUM in 2023.

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80 Patents

for inventions from TUM researchers are submitted to Patent Offices for the first time each year on average.

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19 Nobel Prizes

have been awarded to TUM professors and alumni since 1927, e.g. to Rudolf Mößbauer (Physics) and Ernst Otto Fischer (Chemistry).

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24 Leibniz Prizes

have been awarded to TUM scientists since 1987 (as of: 2023). Our long-serving President Wolfgang A. Herrmann received it in 1987.

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10 Humboldt Professors

have joined the TUM ranks (as of: 2024) – a major success in this competition for top international talent.

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236 ERC Grants

from the European Research Council (ERC) have been granted to our scientists (as of 12/2024) for ambitious research projects.

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31 IEEE Fellows

have been researching and teaching at TUM (as of 2024). Fellow is the highest grade of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Fundraising: EUR 448 mio.

from industry, foundations and private donors was channeled into research and teaching at TUM between 1995–2023.

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Facts and figures

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TUM in Zahlen 2022

Detailed statistics report as PDF, 560 KB– in German

Statistics archive

Archived reports since  2006 (MyTUM-Login)

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