The Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM) (german: Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München) was founded in 1971 and is the largest
university of applied sciences
A university of applied sciences (UAS), nowadays much less commonly called a polytechnic university or vocational university, is an institution of higher education and sometimes research that provides vocational education and grants academic de ...
in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
with about 17,800 students.
The Munich University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1971 by the amalgamation of seven colleges of technology and higher education, some of which date back to the early 19th century. Today it is the largest university of its kind in Bavaria and one of the largest in Germany.
HM collaborates with more than 200 partner universities in Europe, North and South America and Asia. International students make up 13% of the student body.
Staff
HM has about 500 professors, about 700 part-time lecturers, and 511 non-academic staff.
Organisation
HM is organised into the following faculties:
Architecture
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Design
Campuses
The university has three campuses: Campus Lothstraße, Campus Pasing and Campus Karlstraße. Campus Lothstraße also includes the buildings of the Department of Design in Infanteriestraße and the Department of Tourism in Schachenmeierstraße.
Campus Lothstraße
* approx. 11,800 students
* Administration
* Center for continuing education
* Department of Mechanical, Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering
* Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
* Department of Building Services Engineering, Paper and Packaging Technology and Print and Media Technology
* Department of Applied Sciences and Mechatronics
* Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
* Department of Business Administration
* Department of Design (Infanteriestraße)
* Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies
* Department of Tourism ()
Campus Pasing
* approx. 4,200 students
* Department of Business Administration
* Department of Applied Social Sciences
Campus Karlstraße
* approx. 1,900 studentsHochschule München, p. 4f (February 9, 2018)
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* Department of Architecture
* Department of Civil Engineering
* Department of Geoinformatics
See also
* Education in Germany
Education in Germany is primarily the responsibility of individual German states (), with the federal government playing a minor role. Optional Kindergarden (nursery school) education is provided for all children between one and six years o ...
* List of universities in Germany
This is a list of the universities in Germany, of which there are about seventy. The list also includes German ''Technische Universitäten'' (universities of technology), which have official and full university status, but usually focus on engin ...
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Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany
Educational institutions established in 1971
Universities and colleges in Munich