Technische Universität Dresden

Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is one of the largest Universities of Technology in Germany and one of the leading and most dynamic universities in Germany. As a full-curriculum university with 17 faculties in five schools it offers a broad variety of 126 disciplines and covers a wide research spectrum. Its focuses Life Sciences, Quantum Materials, Microelectronics, Tactile Internet, Materials Science, Data Intensive and Digital Sciences, Circular Economy and Societal Change are considered exemplary in Germany and throughout Europe.

About 30,000 students are enrolled at TUD. Internationally, TUD has earned a good reputation, with about 17 % of its students coming from abroad. Today, about 8,300 employees from 80 countries work at Technische Universität Dresden.

Since 2012, TUD has been one of the “Universities of Excellence”. In the second phase of the Excellence Initiative, TUD achieved support for four applications: The Institutional Strategy, the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) and the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) Clusters of Excellence, and the Graduate School Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB).

In January 2019, three new Clusters of Excellence commenced work: PoL – Physics of Life, ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Materials, and CeTI – Centre for Tactile Internet.