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 Europe. As a full-curriculum university with 17 faculties in five schools, TUD offers a broad variety of 124 disciplines and covers a wide research spectrum. Its research priority areas 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 Germany’s eleven “Universities of Excellence”. In the second phase of the Excellence Initiative, TUD was successful with four applications: The Institutional Strategy, the Clusters of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) and the Graduate School Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB. In January 2019, three new Clusters of Excellence have started their work: PoL – Physics of Life, ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Materials, and CeTI – Centre for Tactile Internet. As of 1 November 2019, TU Dresden will receive 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, the TUD has earned a good reputation, about one eighths of its students come from abroad. Today, about 8.300 employees from 70 countries are working at the Technische Universität Dresden.