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Technical University of Munich

Technical University of Munich
Technische Universität München
Motto Die unternehmerische Universität
Motto in English
The Entrepreneurial University
Type Public
Established 1868 (1868)
Founder Ludwig II of Bavaria
Academic affiliation
ATHENS
CESAER
EAIE
EUA
Eurotech
GUEI
PEGASUS
TIME
TU9
Budget €1.329 billion (2015)
President Wolfgang A. Herrmann
Academic staff
9,846 (2015)
Students 40,000 (2016)
Address Arcisstraße 21, Munich, Bavaria, 80333, Germany
Campus Urban
Colors      Blue
Website www.tum.de
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As of September 2016
University rankings
Global
ARWU 47
Times 46
QS 60
Europe
ARWU 13
Times 14
QS 16

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München) is a research university with campuses in Munich, Garching and Freising-Weihenstephan. It is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable German institutes of technology.

TUM's alumni include 13 Nobel laureates, 18 Leibniz Prizewinners and 10 IEEE Fellow Members.

In its capacity as an academic stronghold of technology and science, the Technical University of Munich has played a vital role in Bavaria's transition from an agricultural state to an industrial state and Hi-Tech centre. Even to the present day, it is still the only state university dedicated to technology. Numerous excellent TUM professors have secured their place in the history of technology, many important scientists, architects, engineers and entrepreneurs studied there. Such names as Karl Max von Bauernfeind, Rudolf Diesel, Claude Dornier, Walther von Dyck, Hans Fischer (Nobel prize for Chemistry 1930), Ernst Otto Fischer (Nobel prize for Chemistry 1973), August Föppl, Robert Huber (Nobel prize for Chemistry 1988), Carl von Linde, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Walther Meissner, Rudolf Mössbauer (1961 Nobel prize for Physics), Willy Messerschmitt (aircraft designer), Wilhelm Nusselt, Hans Piloty, Friedrich von Thiersch, Franz von Soxhlet are closely connected with the TUM.


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