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Technical University of Munich

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Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university, located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Weihenstephan out of Munich).

Munich's second university is the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Technical University of Munich
 
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Motto: At home in Bavaria, successful in the world
President Wolfgang A. Herrmann
School type public
Founded 1868
Location Munich, Germany
Enrollment 20,000 undergrad.+grad., 750 post-grad.
Department of Computer Science and Mathematics in GarchingEnlarge

Department of Computer Science and Mathematics in Garching

TUM's first spin-off is the German Institute of Science and Technology, GIST, in Singapore (together with National University of Singapore).

TUM features the worlds first research neutron source FRM-II. It got into service on 02. March 2004.

TUM has international partnerships with Stanford University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, National University of Singapore, Illinois Institute of Technology and many more.

Table of contents
1 Campus
2 Organisation
3 Students
4 Faculty
5 History
6 Nobel Laureates
7 Famous TUM Personalities
8 External links

Campus

The TUM does not have a single campus but is split up in:

Organisation

The TUM is divided into 12 faculties:

Students

Currently TUM has aprox. 20.000 students in undergraduate and graduate programms of which 3.700 are foreign students.

Faculty

TUM has 500 professors, academic staff is 4.000, non-academic 5.500.

History

TUM was founded by King Ludwig II in 1868.

Nobel Laureates

Famous TUM Personalities

External links