About TU Dresden - Short Portrait
At the top
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is one of the largest technical universities in Germany and is among the leading and most dynamic universities in Germany. As a university with 17 faculties in five Schools, TUD offers a broad variety of 119 degree courses and covers a wide research spectrum in the Research Priority Areas (RPAs) Health Sciences, Biomedicine & Bioengineering, Information Technology & Microelectronics, Smart Materials & Structures, Energy, Mobility & Environment as well as Culture & Societal Change.
Excellent
Since 2012, TUD has been one of eleven “Universities of Excellence” and receives permanent funding within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments as of November 2019. Its core elements are the Excellence proposal “TUD 2028 - Synergy and beyond” with the unique research alliance DRESDEN-concept and the three Clusters of Excellence
PoL: Physics of Life,
ct.qmat: Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter, and
CeTI: Centre for Tactile Internet.
TUD stands for values such as tolerance and cosmopolitanism and expresses these regularly, publicly and visibly.
The Clusters of Excellence “Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden” (cfaed) and “Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden" (CRTD) continue to exist as research clusters as well as the Graduate School “Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering” (DIGS-BB).
Excellence: Guiding Principle of University Development
Dynamic
Around 30,000 students are enrolled at the TUD - three times as many as in 1990. Internationally, the TUD has earned an excellent reputation. Currently, every fifth student comes from abroad. Today, around 8,300 employees from 89 countries work at the Technische Universität Dresden. Its third-party funding has increased from 102.7 million euros (2005) to 357.4 million euros (2022). TUD has the most patent applications among German universities (2010-2019) and is among the top 100 universities in THE Impact Rankings "Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure" (2022). To further strengthen our innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, TUD | excite was founded to integrate professional services and research around entrepreneurship and technology transfer and to provide an innovation hub for TUD members as well as investors and industry partners.
Connecting
The TUD spans a wide range to create knowledge for life in addition to knowledge: from the fundamentals of the natural sciences to robotics and artificial intelligence to the sciences of man and his culture: health, aging, ethics, mobility, construction, nature conservation or new energies. Traditional subject boundaries are overcome in the process. Our vision is to further strengthen the TU Dresden as a globally oriented and regionally anchored top university for the 21st century. The lively scientific community of the TUD is taking its social responsibility actively - from promoting structural change in the Lusatian coal region to standing up for democracy.
TUD stands for values such as tolerance and openness to the world and expresses this regularly, publicly and visibly.
Family and environmentally friendly
Our university supports students and staff to reconcile family, studies and work. Since 2007, TUD has been a certified family friendly university. With its Equal Opportunities Concept, TUD addresses the gender equality policy as a core task with commitment and determination. In January 2003, TU Dresden became the first technical university in Germany to have a validated environmental management system according to the EMAS regulation.
Promoting health
Motivated and productive employees and students are crucial factors for TU Dresden's success. With the motto "Together: fit – healthy – powerful", TU Dresden has established a university health management system with the aim of promoting and maintaining the health of employees and students for the long term.