Technische Universität München

Since its inception in 1868, the Technische Universität München (TUM) has established its reputation as a foremost academic institution with 6 Nobel prizes and many other prestigious awards, making it repeatedly the number one German university in various rankings, including the most recent ones.

TUM covers a large spectrum of fundamental and applied research with studies ranging from engineering, natural sciences, including life and medical sciences, to economics. Today, TUM comprises 13 faculties with more than 23,300 students (about 20 percent of whom come from abroad), 420 professors, and roughly 6,500 academic and non-academic staff. TUM is thus well positioned to create new knowledge and know-how.

The TUM Graduate School is TUM´s innovative approach to German doctoral education, founded in 2009. Its program strongly supports the university´s interdisciplinary and international orientation and reflects the increasingly complex research challenges and changing trends in the labor markets.
More than 3000 doctoral candidates, joined in thirteen Faculty Graduate Centers (FGC) and eight Thematic Graduate Centers (TGC), have access to TUM Graduate School´s wide range of interdisciplinary advanced training courses and its general services.

While its graduate centers arrange for subject related training for the doctoral candidates and take care of the administrative part of a dissertation, the TUM Graduate School itself fosters internationalization and networking among its doctoral candidates. A research stay abroad, a four-day Kick-off and a one day Final Seminar are mandatory to all members of the TUM Graduate School, securing an excellent transferable skills training meeting the best of international standards.