Technische Universität München (TUM) is one of Germany's leading universities, and also one of the oldest technical universities in the world. Seven Nobel price laureates are proof of the TUM's excellence in research. Although medium in size, TUM has the highest amount of research grants of all German universities and has excellent relationships to leading companies in the Munich area, one of Europe's high tech clusters. The main campus is right in the heart of Munich.

In 1833 a technology institute was established in Munich and attached to the university, and in 1868 King Ludwig II founded the independent academy in Munich. Teaching began with 24 professors, 21 lecturers, and nearly 450 students in 5 departments. In 1970 this technical academy became the Technische Universität München, making it one of the oldest technical universities.

Today the TU München consists of twelve separate colleges with 240 chairs, more than 480 professors and nearly 9,000 scientific researchers and administrative members. In 1968, the year of its 100th anniversary, there were 8,000 students. Today there are about 19,000 students currently enrolled in 70 different courses. The main campus is located in Arcistrasse, right in the heart of Munich. There are two other TU campuses in Garching and Weihenstephan. The research conducted at the TU München is recognized worldwide. The quality of its teaching shows in the high qualifications of its graduates, and in the fact that graduates from the TU München generally experience no problems entering the business world, since many of them establish business contacts during their time at the TU. Efficient academic teaching depends on outstanding scientific research. For this reason, we take the greatest possible care when hiring new professors. We are fortunate enough that a number of Nobel prize winners came from our university:

Of it's overall yearly budget of about 1 billion EUR, more than one third comes from third party parties such as the German Academy of Science, the DAAD, and contract research with leading companies around Europe.

History of the Technische Universität München

1823
The engineer Georg von Reichenbach and the scientist Joseph von Fraunhofer urge the foundation of a "polytechnic establishment to serveas a college for all technical studies".
1833
A "Technical College" is set up as part of the Cameralistic Faculty of the University of Munich.
1868
The Technical College becomes an independent, scientific institution (called the "Polytechnic School" until 1877) and gains a building of ist own at Arcis Strasse, erected by Gottfried von Neureuther. At the time of its foundation, the college was divided into a General Department, an Engineering Department, a Structural Engineering Department, a Mechanical-Technical Department and a Chemical-Technical Department.
1877
The college is now officially named "Technische Hochschule München" Munich Polytechnic.
1901
The Hochschule gains the right to confer degrees and doctorates in engineering.
1902
Instead of a "Director" and a "Governing Board", the Hochschule is now administered by a "Rector" and a "Senate".
1930
The College for Agriculture and Brewery in Weihenstephan is incorporated into the Hochschule.
1945
By the end of the War, 85% of the Hochschule, which now comprised 80 professorships, had been reduced to ruins.
1957
Construction of a research reactor in Garching and relocation of the Faculties for Physics and Chemistry to the same campus in the following years. Plans to move the Hochschule as a whole to Garching are later abandoned.
1967
Establishment of the Faculty of Medicine.
1968
The Hochschule, which now consists of six faculties with 170 full professors (chair holders), 851 00 students and a staff of 5.700, celebrates its first centenary.
1970
The Hochschule is renamed Technische Universität München.
1974
Re-organization of the University into eleven faculties.
1992
The Faculty for Mathematics and Informatics is divided into two, meaning that the University now has twelve faculties.
1993
The University celebrates its 125th anniversary.
1995
The University has roughly 21,000 students, 240 full professors (chair holders) and 9,315 full-time employees.

2002
After a large scale restructering, the new faculty fpr business administration and management is opened. TUM offers various management orientated degrees, see www.bwl.tum.de and www.mba.tum.de for more information.