Technical University of Munich

When it was founded in 1868, the Technical University of Munich was known as the Royal Bavarian Polytechnic of Munich. Several inventors have studied at the university, including Carl von Linde, who invented the refrigerator, and Rudolf Diesel, who invented the diesel engine. The university ranks fifth on the list of best universities in Germany.

Furthermore, since 1927, 13 of the university's teachers or alumni have been named Nobel laureates. Gerhard Ertl, a former instructor at the university who earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2007, and alumni Wolfgang Ketterle, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, are among the most recent awardees. In 2014, 165 inventions were developed by university scientists, while 69 patents were submitted in 2015.

The Technical University of Munich also has five Humboldt professors — academics who are internationally recognized in their discipline – and has had 18 Leibniz prizes given to its scientists since 1987.

The university has around 400 buildings spread across three campuses in Bavaria: Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan. The university is divided into 13 departments and includes an Olympic park and university hospitals. It established the German Institute of Science and Technology – TUM Asia in Singapore in 2002. It covers master's degrees as well as professional training programs.

The Technical University of Munich adopted a new institutional strategy in 2006, branding itself as "The Entrepreneurial University." Students and faculty at the college have created over 800 start-ups.

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World rank: 80
Location: München, Germany
Website: https://www.tum.de/