TUM in figures

Key figures about our university at a glance.

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52.580 Students

are enrolled at our university in the winter semester 2023/24. 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 networki. 8,982 new graduations were awarded in the academic year 2021/22.

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10,413 Publications

by TUM academics appeared in 2022 in international journals (peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, reviews; source: Scopus 2023).

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1,141 Doctorates

were awarded by TUM in the academic year 2021/22. Modernized doctoral degree regulations were published in 2012.

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464.0 mio. Euros third-party funding

for research and teaching was secured in accounting year 2022 making TUM one of German’s top- ranked universities.

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78 Start-up companies

were founded at TUM in 2022.

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73 Patents

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

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18 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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8 Humboldt Professors

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

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209 ERC Grants

from the European Research Council (ERC) have been granted to our scientists (as of 01/2024) for ambitious research projects.

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29 IEEE Fellows

have been researching and teaching at TUM (as of 2023). Fellow is the highest grade of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Fundraising: EUR 435.0 mio.

from industry, foundations and private donors was channeled into research and teaching at TUM between 1995–2022.

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Detailed publications for download

Facts and figures

Info booklets on mediaTUM

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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