TUM in figures

Key figures about our university at a glance.

Degree programs

publications in academic journals

million euros third-party funding

50.484 Students

are enrolled at our university in the winter semester 2022/23. Of them, 36% are female students, 41% have come from abroad for their eduction at TUM.

643 Professors

research and teach at TUM. We have appointed 209 professors from universities abroad (as of 2006–2020).

8 Schools and departments

form the academic foundation of our university, connected by 6 integrative research institutes at the interfaces between disciplines.

11,804 Employees

are working at TUM and its university hospital, 7,708 of which are academic staff.

7 Global locations

are instrumental for the internationalization of TUM. One of them is TUM Asia, our campus in Singapore.

86,153 Alumni

make up our worldwide alumni networki. 9,506 new graduations were awarded in the academic year 2020/21.

9,455 Publications

by TUM academics appeared in 2021 in international journals (peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, reviews; source: Scopus 2022).

1,109 Doctorates

were awarded by TUM in the academic year 2020/21. Modernized doctoral degree regulations were published in 2012.

430.4 mio. Euros third-party funding

for research and teaching was secured in accounting year 2021 making TUM one of German’s top- ranked universities.

66 Start-up companies

were founded at TUM in 2021.

73 Patents

for inventions from TUM researchers were submitted to Patent Offices 2020.

> 6,000 Cooperation agreements

were concluded with companies or other partners for research projects since 2013.

18 Nobel Prizes

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

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.

8 Humboldt Professors

have joined the TUM ranks (as of: 2022) – a major success in this competition for top international talent.

185 ERC Grants

from the European Research Council (ERC) have been granted to our scientists (as of 03/2023) for ambitious research projects.

29 IEEE Fellows

have been researching and teaching at TUM (as of 2021). Fellow is the highest grade of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Fundraising: EUR 416.2 mio.

from industry, foundations and private donors was channeled into research and teaching at TUM between 1998–2021.

Facts and figures

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TUM in Zahlen 2020

Detailed statistics report as PDF, 1 MB – in German

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Statistics archive

Archived reports since 2006 (MyTUM-Login)

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