rankings by QS
| QS World University Rankings | 64 |
| QS WU Rankings by Subject: natural sciences | 12 |
| Graduate Employability Ranking | 70 |
rankings by USNews
| Best Global Universities Ranking | 80 |
| Best Global Universities in Europe | 23 |
| Country Rank | 3 |
| Agricultural Sciences | 41= |
| Biology and Biochemistry | 65= |
| Chemistry | 58= |
| Clinical Medicine | 117= |
| Computer Science | 38= |
| Engineering | 75= |
| Environment/Ecology | 110= |
| Immunology | 63= |
| Materials Science | 125 |
| Mathematics | 80 |
| Molecular Biology and Genetics | 53 |
| Neuroscience and Behavior | 105 |
| Physics | 58 |
| Plant and Animal Science | 115= |
| Psychiatry/Psychology | 148 |
| Social Sciences and Public Health | 217= |
| Space Science | 200 |
rankings by THE
| World University Rankings | 41 |
| 46 | |
| 53 | |
| clinical,preclinical and health | 46= |
| engineering and technology | 20= |
| Life Sciences | 43 |
| physical sciences | 30 |
| Computer Science | 16 |
| world reputation rankings 2017 | 61-70 |
Consistently featured as one of the highest-ranked universities in Germany in the QS World University Rankings®, Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München), also known as TUM, was founded in 1868 and is a member of the TU9, an association of nine of Germany’s most prestigious technical universities. TUM has 14 academic departments and 40,124 students, of which around 24% are international. It calls itself The Entrepreneurial University and aims to foster a supportive environment for budding entrepreneurs. There are 172 degree programs available including a selection of English-taught courses.
The Technical University of Munich was originally known as the Royal Bavarian Polytechnic of Munich when it was founded in 1868.
Specialising in the natural sciences, several inventors have studied at the institution, including Carl von Linde, who invented the refrigerator, and Rudolf Diesel, who conceived the diesel engine.
In addition, 13 of the university’s professors or alumni have been made Nobel laureates since 1927. The most recent recipients include Gerhard Ertl, a former lecturer at the institution who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2007, and alumnus Wolfgang Ketterle, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. In 2014, 165 inventions were made by scientists at the university, while in 2015, 69 patents were submitted.
The institution is also home to five Humboldt professors – academics who are internationally recognised in their field – while 18 Leibniz prizes gave been awarded to its scientists since 1987.
The university has more than 400 buildings across three campuses in the state of Bavaria: Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan. The institution is spilt into 13 departments, and also has an Olympic park and university hospitals.
In 2002 it opened a campus in Singapore called the German Institute of Science and Technology – TUM Asia. It includes master’s degrees and training programmes for professionals.
In 2006 the university launched a new institutional strategy, positioning itself as “The Entrepreneurial University”. More than 800 start-ups have been developed by students and staff at the institution.
The university has three locations in the German state of Bavaria – downtown Munich, Garching and Weihenstephan. The Garching campus, located north of Munich, has the largest enrollment and is home to TUM's natural sciences and technology divisions. In general, students do not pay tuition at the university but rather pay semester fees. TUM does not have its own student housing, though accommodations managed by outside organizations are available.
The university has 13 academic divisions: architecture; chemistry; civil, geo and environmental engineering; education; electrical and computer engineering; informatics; life sciences; management; math; mechanical engineering; medicine; physics; and sport and health sciences. In all, the university offers more than 150 degree programs, and the primary language of instruction is German. However, TUM offers more than three dozen programs that are taught completely in English as well as a number of bilingual programs, most of which are at the master's level. The university’s academic calendar is semester-based. The university has a number of research centers, including the Munich Center for Technology in Society, the Walter Schottky Institut for the study of nanotechnology and nanomaterials and the Hans Eisenmann-Zentrum for agricultural sciences. The Erlenmeyer flask, a piece of equipment commonly found in chemistry labs that is used to measure and store liquids, was named after one of TUM's founding professors.
