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million euros third-party funding
52.931 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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698 Professors
research and teach at TUM. We have appointed 291 professors from universities abroad (as of 2006–2024).
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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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12,616 Employees
are working at TUM and its university hospitals, 8,354 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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110,434 Alumni
make up our worldwide alumni network. 10,868 new graduations were awarded in the academic year 2023/24.
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10,904 Publications
by TUM academics appeared in 2024 in international journals (peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, reviews; source: Scopus 2025).
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1,168 Doctorates
were awarded by TUM in the academic year 2023/24. A doctorate at TUM combines individual research work with the structured qualification offered by the TUM Graduate School.
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544 mio. Euros third-party funding
for research and teaching was secured in accounting year 2024 making TUM one of German’s top- ranked universities.
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103 Start-up companies
were founded at TUM in 2024.
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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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25 Leibniz Prizes
have been awarded to TUM scientists since 1987 (as of: 2025). 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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247 ERC Grants
from the European Research Council (ERC) have been granted to our scientists (as of 07/2025) for ambitious research projects.
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35 IEEE Fellows
have been researching and teaching at TUM (as of 2025). Fellow is the highest grade of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Fundraising: EUR 471,5 mio.
from industry, foundations and private donors was channeled into research and teaching at TUM between 1998–2025.
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