Facts and figures at a glance
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- Founded in 1828
- University of Excellence since 2012
- TUD has 17 Faculties in 5 departments
- 8.300 employees, of whom 3.400 are funded by third parties
Diverse and international study location
With its wide range of courses, the TU Dresden offers a home to almost all sciences.
- 29,000 students, of whom around 5.400 (18,5 %) are international students from124 countries
- 24,9 % School of engineering sciences
- 27,2 % School of Civil and Environment Engineering
- 12,3 %School of Science
- 10,0 % School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- 14,3 % in teacher training degree programs
- 11,3 % School of Medicine
- 119 degree programs, of wich are 25 english language degree programs and 32 are double degree programs
- 330 erasmus partner universities worldwide
- 6.400 Promovierende
- 1.000 tenured academic staff, of whom around 600 are professors
Excellent and interdisciplinary research
TUD is among the leading universities worldwide and one of eleven German Universities of Excellence (Top 1% QS-Ranking 2023)
- High level of third-party funding: 773 Mio. Euro total budget (in 2023), of which 361 million Euro are in third-party funding
- Three clusters of Excellence:
- TUD is (co-)applicant in 12 Collaborative Research Centers (CRC) and Transregios (TRR)
- 2 BMBF Future Clusters and 4 BMBF projects with funding of at least EUR 1 million per year
- Speaker roles for the Base4NFDI joint project, in the NFDI4Earth consortium, and participation in 12 other NFDI consortia
- Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences (CIDS) with
- NHR@TUD: 1 of 9 National High Performance Computing Centers
- SCaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig: 1 of 7 National Competence Centers for Artificial Intelligence
Success in science transfer
TU Dresden is the university with the most patents in Germany.
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- TUD|excitepools all innovation activities at TUD as an “Excellence Center for Innovation, Transfer, and Entrepreneurship“
- 86 patent registrations in 2022
- 1,000 research collaborations alongside various companies annually
- 5th place in the DFG Funding Atlas
- Ranked 59th worldwide in the 2023 THE Impact Ranking in the table of "Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure"
- Start-up service dresden|exists supports on average 20 spin-offs annually
Globally networked, regionally anchored
Our vision: TUD as a globally oriented and at the same time regionally anchored top university for the 21st century.
- 621 partnerships in 94 countries worldwide,Liaison Office Taiwan (Taipeh)
- around 19,000 alumni in the TUD Alumni Network
- EUTOPIA: Alliance of 10 European universities
- transCampus: transnational strategic partnership between TU Dresden and King's College London
- TU9: alliance of leading Universities of Technology in Germany
- TUD | Lusatia Campus: research infrastructure for structural change in Lusatia
- Science and Innovation Campus
- 37 research institutes and research-based cultural institutions as part of DRESDEN-concept
- 45 joint (aktiv) appointments with DRESDEN-concept partner institutions
TUD Campus: liveable and sustainable
The TUD campus offers a high quality of stay: Innovatively and sustainably designed, to serve as an excellent place to learn and work.
- The Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) is one of the largest and most innovative academic libraries in Germany with more than 90 mil. sources in the catalog and over 1.1 mil. visits per year.
- art collection with around 4,000 works of all genres in the Kustodie
- 5 Botanical Gardens: Dresden, Bosel Garden, Zuschendorf, Fichtelberg, and the Forest Park Tharandt (Saxon State Arboretum)
- certified environmental management system according to EMAS since 2003
- sustainability strategy with more than 80 measures
- Green Office and master plan for a green livable campus
- certified as a family-friendly university since 2007
- 375 childcare places in daycare centers close to campus
- University Health Management for all staff and students
- Compliance management system with anonymous whistleblower system
- 871 courses in over 60 different sport types at Dresden University Sports Center