Technische Universität Dresden

Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is one of the largest “Technische Universitäten” 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 124 disciplines and covers a wide research spectrum. Its focuses Health Sciences, Biomedicine & Bioengineering, Information Technology & Microelectronics, Smart Materials & Structures, Energy, Mobility & Environment as well as Culture & Societal Change are considered exemplary in Germany and throughout Europe.

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.

As of November 1, 2019, TU Dresden has received permanent funding within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments .

About 32,000 students are enrolled at TUD – more than three times as many as in 1990 (11,220 students). Internationally, TUD has earned a good reputation, with about one eighth of its students coming from abroad. Today, about 8,300 employees from 70 countries work at Technische Universität Dresden.