The Technische Universität München (TUM) offers a wide range of studies in engineering, natural sciences, including life and medical sciences, and economics. With nearly 130 courses of study thereof 70 with bachelor and master degrees, TUM covers the whole spectrum of fundamental and applied research in many disciplines. Furthermore TUM participates in European university network, has drawn up double diploma agreements with more than 20 universities and maintains partnerships with around 140 universities throughout the world.
Today TUM comprises twelve faculties with about 22,000 students (about 20 percent of whom come from abroad), 420 professors and roughly 6,500 members of staff, academic and non-academic.
TUM thus is well positioned along the value chain of creating new knowledge and know how. Since its inception in 1868, TUM established its reputation as a foremost academic institution with six nobel prizes and many other prestigious awards, making it repeatedly the Number One German university in different rankings. From the German Science Council and the German Research Foundation TUM was awarded as one of the outstanding German research univiersities.
Today, TUM counts not only the best German academics as its alumni, but also a great number of top executives of German industry. TUM commits itself to the mission statement of .
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