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QS Subject Rankings

In the world's top 20 in natural sciences and engineering

In the renowned QS World University Rankings by Subject, TUM is among the top 20 universities in the world for the first...

3/12/2025 Reading time 2 min.

Research

Training with exoskeleton

Regaining mobility quickly after a stroke

The combination of an exoskeleton and electrical stimulation enables patients to learn to move their paralyzed arms and...

3/12/2025 Reading time 2 min.

Covid-19

Coordination at the TUM Uni Hospital

New network for Long Covid treatment and research

The Federal Ministry of Health recently announced nearly 45 million euros in funding for four projects addressing the...

3/13/2025 Reading time 2 min.

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Teaching

Submit project proposals by May 31

Start of the TUM Future Learning Initiative 2025

Dynamic, competence-oriented, and at the cutting edge – the teaching of the future is being shaped at TUM. Who knows better...

3/10/2025 Reading time 1 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

3/13–9/14

Exhibition "Trees, Time, Architecture!"

Thu 3/13/2025 – Sun 9/14/2025

Architecture Museum of TUM

Visit the exhibition "Trees, Time, Architecture!" about the potentials and contradictions of "building on trees" in architecture.

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3/18

Conference Breaking BAIS

Tue 3/18/2025, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

Munich

Find out how innovative women can gain more visibility - register now for the conference!

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3/21

TUM Open Campus Munich

Fri 3/21/2025, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Munich

Our campuses open their doors to all who want to find out about TUM’s Bachelor’s degree programs.

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4/3

Girls‘ Day Campus Heilbronn

Thu 4/3/2025, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Heilbronn

For career orientation, we invite girls from the 5th grade onwards to get to know IT and technology subjects.

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What drives us: President Thomas F. Hofmann about TUM

Research and innovations for society, innovative teaching and continuing education: This is how we shape a sustainable future, relying on the intelligence of the entire university and working closely with global partners to do so.

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Our research goals

Understanding the essential foundations of life

We explore which fundamental forces and mechanisms shaped the universe and how its galaxies, stars and planets developed - and how life originated.

Maintaining health and targeting diseases

How will we treat serious illnesses in the future and how can we make reliable diagnoses more quickly? We address these questions with the latest technologies and methods.

Shaping a sustainable living environment

We combine all our expertise to slow down climate change and create sustainable places to live and work.

Creating new materials and manufacturing technologies

High-precision sensors on a quantum basis and new systems for storing energy - we develop digital manufacturing technologies and sustainable process engineering.

Pioneering digital transformation for a secure future

We develop secure digital technologies that make life and work easier. Our goal is to find solutions to questions of digital change and to constantly drive them forward.