TU Dresden (for , abbreviated as TUD), also as the Dresden University of Technology, is a public research university in
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
, Germany. It is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
and one of the 10 largest universities in Germany with 32,389 students .
The name Technische Universität Dresden has only been used since 1961; the history of the university, however, goes back nearly 200 years to 1828. This makes it one of the oldest colleges of technology in Germany, and one of the country's oldest universities, which in German today refers to institutes of higher education that cover the entire curriculum. The university is a member of
TU9, a consortium of the nine leading German Institutes of Technology. The university is one of eleven German universities which succeeded in the
Excellence Initiative in 2012, thus getting the title of a "University of Excellence". The TU Dresden succeeded in all three rounds of the
German Universities Excellence Initiative
The Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG) aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen coopera ...
(Future Concept, Graduate Schools, Clusters of Excellence).
History
In 1828, with emerging industrialization, the Saxon Technical School was founded to educate
skilled worker
A skilled worker is any worker who has special skill, training, or knowledge which they can then apply to their work. A skilled worker may have learned their skills through work experience, on-the-job training, an apprenticeship program or f ...
s in technological subjects such as
mechanics
Mechanics () is the area of physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among Physical object, physical objects. Forces applied to objects may result in Displacement (vector), displacements, which are changes of ...
, mechanical engineering and ship construction. In 1871, the year the
German Empire
The German Empire (),; ; World Book, Inc. ''The World Book dictionary, Volume 1''. World Book, Inc., 2003. p. 572. States that Deutsches Reich translates as "German Realm" and was a former official name of Germany. also referred to as Imperia ...
was founded, the institute was renamed the Royal Saxon
Polytechnic Institute (). At that time, subjects not connected with technology, such as history and languages, were introduced. By the end of the 19th century the institute had developed into a university covering all disciplines. The school was named Technische Hochschule since 1919, it was given its present name, (''TU Dresden'') in 1961.
Nazi rules
Alfred Baeumler declared his Nazi views in 1932 and moved to Berlin in 1933.
Nazi
German Student Union organised a book burning at the
Bismarck Column on Räcknitzhöhe in 1933.
Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer (9 October 188111 February 1960) was a German literary scholar and diarist. His journals, published posthumously in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the fascist Nazi Germany, Third ...
,
Gustav Kafka, Richard Seyfert, Hans Gehrig were expelled or forced to resign.
Richard von Mises
Richard Martin Edler von Mises (; 19 April 1883 – 14 July 1953) was an Austrian scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of ...
,
Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich (; ; August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German and American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twenti ...
, Harry Dember had to emigrate.
GDR
Students of the university were tried in two 1959 political trials.
The third reform of universities took place in 1968.
The university has integrated the Dresden College of Engineering () in 1986.
After reunification

Upon
German reunification
German reunification () was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic and the int ...
in 1990, the university had already integrated the College of Forestry (), formerly the
Royal Saxony Academy of Forestry, in the nearby small town of
Tharandt
Tharandt () is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, southwest of Dresden.
It has a Protestant Church and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany, founded as the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry by Heinrich Cotta in 181 ...
. This was followed by the integration of the
Friedrich List
Daniel Friedrich List (6 August 1789 – 30 November 1846) was a German entrepreneur, diplomat, economist and political theory, political theorist who developed the Economic nationalism, nationalist theory of political economy in both Europe and t ...
College of Transport () the faculty of transport science, and the "Carl-Gustav Carus" Medical Academy ( or MedAk for short), the medical faculty. Some faculties were newly founded: the faculties of Information Technology (1991), Law (1991), Education (1993) and Economics (1993).
In 2009 TU Dresden, all Dresden institutes of the
Fraunhofer Society
The Fraunhofer Society () is a German publicly-owned research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on Basic re ...
, the
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community
The Leibniz Association (German: ''Leibniz-Gemeinschaft'' or ''Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz'') is a union of German non-university research institutes from various disciplines.
Funding and Structure
As of 2020, 96 non-u ...
and the
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...
and
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, soon incorporated into the
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres () is the largest scientific organisation in Germany. It is a union of 18 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centers. The official mission of the Association is "solving the g ...
, published a joint letter of intent with the name – Dresden Research and Education Synergies for the Development of Excellence and Novelty, which points out worldwide elite aspirations, which was recognized as the first time that all four big post-gradual elite institutions declared campus co-operation with a university.
Campus

TU Dresden is a campus university in most aspects. Some of its buildings are more than a hundred years old (such as the buildings around Muenchner Platz square). The architecture of these buildings is mostly influenced by the
art nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
style or the
Bauhaus school
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the , was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 2009), , pp. 64� ...
(e.g. the chemistry building ). In recent years these historic buildings have been complemented by modern buildings (e.g. the library, the main auditorium, the biochemistry department or the life sciences building).
The main campus, as well as the medical faculty and that of computer science, are all within the boundaries of the city of Dresden. The main campus is located south of the city center, mostly in the area bordered by Nöthnitzer Straße, Fritz-Förster-Platz and Münchner Platz; the medical faculty can be found in the Johannstadt district. The faculty of forestry, formerly the
Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry
The Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry (German: ''Königliche-Sächsische Forstakademie'') in Tharandt, Saxony, near Dresden, was founded by silviculturist Heinrich Cotta in 1811. Established in conjunction with the school, and later integrated wit ...
, resides in a forest area in the nearby town of
Tharandt
Tharandt () is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, southwest of Dresden.
It has a Protestant Church and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany, founded as the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry by Heinrich Cotta in 181 ...
.
Organization
TU Dresden has 17
faculties
Faculty or faculties may refer to:
Academia
* Faculty (academic staff), professors, researchers, and teachers of a given university or college (North American usage)
* Faculty (division), a large department of a university by field of study (us ...
. Almost all faculties are located on the main campus south of the city center, except for the Faculty of Medicine that has its own campus near the
Elbe
The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...
river East of the city center and the Department of Forestry in
Tharandt
Tharandt () is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, southwest of Dresden.
It has a Protestant Church and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany, founded as the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry by Heinrich Cotta in 181 ...
.
Sciences
The school of sciences is composed of five faculties: Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology. The faculties are all located on the main campus. In 2006, a new research building for the biology department opened. In October 2006 the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The German Research Foundation ( ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2019, the DFG had a funding bu ...
decided to fund a new graduate school, the ''Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering'' and a so-called cluster of excellence ''From Cells to Tissues to Therapies''.
Engineering

* The Faculty of Architecture and landscape comprises six departments. Currently, there are 1,410 students enrolled.
* The Faculty of Civil Engineering is structured into eleven departments. It is the oldest and smallest of the faculties. There are currently 800 students enrolled.
* The Faculty of Computer Science comprises six departments: Applied Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software- and Multimedia-Technology, Systems Architecture, Computer Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science. The faculty has 2,703 students.
* The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology is organized into 13 departments. There are 2,288 students enrolled. The faculty is the heart of the so-called ''Silicon Saxony'' in
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
.
* The Faculty of Environmental Sciences has 2,914 students. The faculty is located on the main campus, except for the Forestry department which is located in
Tharandt
Tharandt () is a municipality in Saxony, Germany, situated on the Weißeritz, southwest of Dresden.
It has a Protestant Church and the oldest academy of forestry in Germany, founded as the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry by Heinrich Cotta in 181 ...
. The Forestry department is the oldest of its kind in Germany. Its history goes back to the foundation of the
Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry
The Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry (German: ''Königliche-Sächsische Forstakademie'') in Tharandt, Saxony, near Dresden, was founded by silviculturist Heinrich Cotta in 1811. Established in conjunction with the school, and later integrated wit ...
() in 1816.
* The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering comprises 19 departments and has 5,731 students. It is the largest faculty at TUD.
* The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences "
Friedrich List
Daniel Friedrich List (6 August 1789 – 30 November 1846) was a German entrepreneur, diplomat, economist and political theory, political theorist who developed the Economic nationalism, nationalist theory of political economy in both Europe and t ...
" is the only of its kind in Germany covering transport and traffic from economy and system theory science to electrical, civil and mechanical engineering. There are 1,536 students enrolled.
Humanities and Social Sciences
* The Faculty of Business and Economics comprises five departments: Business Education Studies (), Business Management, Economics, Business Information Systems and Statistics. There are 2,842 students enrolled.
* The Faculty of Education, located east of the main campus, has 2,075 students.
* The Faculty of Languages, Literature and Culture is structured into five departments: American Studies, English Studies, German Studies, Philology, Romance Languages and Slavic Studies. There are 3,215 students at this faculty.
* The Faculty of Philosophy comprises seven departments: Art History, Communications, History, Musicology, Political Sciences, Sociology and Theology. There are 3,485 students enrolled.
* The
School of International Studies is a so-called central institution of the university coordinating the
law
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...
,
economics
Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
and
political sciences
Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...
departments for courses of interdisciplinary
international relations
International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...
.
Medicine
* The ''
Carl Gustav Carus
Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 – 28 July 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romanticism, Romantic era. A friend of the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a ...
'' Faculty of Medicine has its own campus east of the city center near the
Elbe
The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...
river. Currently, there are 2,195 students enrolled. The faculty has a partnership with
Partners Harvard Medical International.
Research Centers
*
Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) – former Cluster of Excellence
* – former Cluster of Excellence
* Dendro-Institute Tharandt at the TU Dresden
* The European Institute for Postgraduate Education at TU Dresden ()
* The European Institute of Transport ()
* The ''
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theory, political theorists of the twentieth century.
Her work ...
'' Center for Research on
Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition from political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and completely controls the public s ...
()
* Center for Media Culture ()
* Center for Research on Mechanics of Structures and Materials ()
*
School of International Studies ()
Research
The TU Dresden benefits from the strong research tradition in microelectronics and transport sciences in the Dresden area, but also from the establishment of new research fields such as Biotechnology.
Biotechnology and medical technology
The university has established a strong partnership with the
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
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The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) is a biology research institute located in Dresden, Germany. It was founded in 1998 and was fully operational in 2001. Research groups in the institute work in m ...
in molecular bioengineering. As part of the
German Universities Excellence Initiative
The Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG) aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen coopera ...
, the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The German Research Foundation ( ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2019, the DFG had a funding bu ...
has decided to fund the Cluster of Excellence "From Cells to Tissues to Therapies: Engineering the Cellular Basis of Regeneration" (now ), as well as a new graduate school, the "
" with about 300 PhD students.
The CRTD together with the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) and the Center for Molecular Bioengineering (B CUBE) are part of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB) as central scientific unit of the TU Dresden.
The Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) is a unique interdisciplinary center focusing on research and teaching in molecular
bioengineering
Biological engineering or
bioengineering is the application of principles of biology and the tools of engineering to create usable, tangible, economically viable products. Biological engineering employs knowledge and expertise from a number ...
. It hosts top international research groups dedicated to
genomics
Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, ...
,
proteomics
Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. Proteins are vital macromolecules of all living organisms, with many functions such as the formation of structural fibers of muscle tissue, enzymatic digestion of food, or synthesis and replicatio ...
,
biophysics
Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations ...
,
cellular machines,
tissue engineering
Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline that uses a combination of cells, engineering, materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physicochemical factors to restore, maintain, improve, or replace different types of biolo ...
, and
bioinformatics
Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...
. The research at the CRTD and BIOTEC is complemented by that of the B CUBE which aims to learn from nature and translate the new knowledge into technological applications.
Magnetism and material sciences
The ''
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The German Research Foundation ( ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2019, the DFG had a funding bu ...
'' funds research in the area of electromagnetic flow influence in metallurgy, artificial crystal formation and electrochemistry. Other research is done on the
Meissner effect
In condensed-matter physics, the Meissner effect (or Meißner–Ochsenfeld effect) is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state when it is cooled below the critical temperature. Th ...
and artificial fibers (textile).
Micro and nanotechnology
Silicon Saxony
Silicon Saxony is a registered industry association of around 600 companies in the microelectronics and related high-tech sectors in Saxony, Germany. Many of those firms are situated in the north of Dresden.
The term "Silicon Saxony" originated ...
is the biggest cluster of the microelectronics industries in Europe. TU Dresden is incorporated in this network with three departments of the faculties of Electrical Engineering and Sciences. Together with the Fraunhofer Center for Nano-electronic technologies (CNT), it represents one of the leading universities in the field of nanotechnology. There is also a research cooperation with some semiconductor fields of
TU Freiberg. In May 2012 the Helmholtz-Kolleg NANONET was founded.
Transport
The university has a partnership with the Fraunhofer-Institut for Transport and Infrastructure systems to research on IT-systems for public transport in Dresden.
Business and Economics
In partnership with TU Dresden, the Ifo Institute of Economic Research () is researching the economic development in Eastern Germany.
The university belongs to a consortium of European Universities offering the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme IT4BI-DC for Business Intelligence.
Other research areas
The ''
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
The German Research Foundation ( ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2019, the DFG had a funding bu ...
'' supports the university in many areas and TU Dresden cooperates closely with renowned research institutes such as
Fraunhofer Society
The Fraunhofer Society () is a German publicly-owned research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on Basic re ...
,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community
The Leibniz Association (German: ''Leibniz-Gemeinschaft'' or ''Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz'') is a union of German non-university research institutes from various disciplines.
Funding and Structure
As of 2020, 96 non-u ...
and
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...
.
Neuromorphic computing facility
TU Dresden received a grant of eight million euro from the EU's
Human Brain Project
The Human Brain Project (HBP) was a €1-billion EU scientific research project that ran for ten years from 2013 to 2023. Using high-performance exascale supercomputers it built infrastructure that allowed researchers to advance knowledge in ...
to build the second generation
spinnaker
A spinnaker is a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind on courses between a Point of sail#Reaching, reach (wind at 90° to the course) to Point of sail#Running downwind, downwind (course in the same direction as the wind). Spinna ...
computer called spincloud.
Rankings
TU Dresden is recognized in several
university ranking
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systems. According to the
QS World University Rankings
The ''QS World University Rankings'' is a portfolio of comparative college and university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm. Its first and earliest edition was published in collaboration with '' Times ...
for 2024, the university is ranked 246th globally and 16th nationally.
The
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', often referred to as the THE Rankings, is the annual publication of university rankings by the ''Times Higher Education'' magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli Symon ...
for 2024 places the institution at 161st globally and 16th within the nation.
In the
ARWU World Rankings for 2023, the university's position is in the 201–300 range globally, and between 10th and 19th place nationally.
According to the 2019 QS Engineering and Technology Ranking the university ranked 113th worldwide and 5th in Germany. According to the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university ranked 90th worldwide in engineering & technology. Moreover, According to
Reuters
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The agency ...
, the university was ranked 79th in the list of 'Most Innovative Universities Ranking 2019'.
The
Eduniversal
Eduniversal is a university ranking business by the French consulting company and rating agency ''SMBG'' specialized in Higher Education. Founded in 1994, one of the main goals of Eduniversal is to provide a tool, for students all around the world ...
Business Schools ranking ranks the university's Faculty of Business and Economics with 3 out of 5 palmes of excellence. According to the university ranking 2016 of the German business magazine
Wirtschaftswoche
''Wirtschaftswoche'' is a German weekly business news magazine published in Germany. ''Wirtschaft'' means “economy” (including business), and ''Woche'' is “week”.
History and profile
For many years, ''Wirtschaftswoche'' was published ...
the university ranked 7th in Germany in computer science and mechanical engineering and 6th in Germany in business informatics and engineering management. The university did not take first place in any of the ranked subjects: Business Administration, Business informatics, Engineering management, Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Economics.
International cooperations
As one of the first universities in Germany it has opened a branch in
Hanoi
Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...
,
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
offering a Master's course in
mechatronics
Mechatronics engineering, also called mechatronics, is the synergistic integration of mechanical, electrical, and computer systems employing mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering and computer engineering, and also ...
. It also maintains close partnerships with leading universities around the world, e.g.
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...
,
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...
,
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the Un ...
,
Tongji University
Tongji University is a public university located in Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Tongji is one of the ...
and
POSTECH
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH, ) is a private university, private research university in Pohang, South Korea.
History
Pohang University of Science and Technology was established on December 3, 1986, by POSCO, a South Ko ...
.
Student life
General
Of the roughly 35,000 students, 45% are studying Engineering Sciences, 36.2% Humanities and Social Sciences, 12.5% Natural Sciences and Mathematics and 6.3% Medicine.
About 59% (20,620) of the student body originates from
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
, 18.9% (6,626) from other Eastern German federal states, 12.3% (4,306) from the Western German federal states and 9.8% (3,442) from other countries.
Of the 20,620 students from Saxony, 12,351 (59.9%) are from
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
, 2,934 (14.2%) from the Dresden metro area and 5,335 (25.9%) from other parts of Saxony.
The origin of the students is based on the location where the A-level exams have been completed.
International students
There are 3,442 international students enrolled at the TU Dresden (2005–2006). Most of the foreign students come from Europe (1,527), followed by Asia (1,404) and
America
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
(170). Ranked by countries the largest group of students comes from China (710), followed by Poland (294),
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
(196),
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...
(160) and Russia (154). The university is also quite popular among Central and East European countries such as the neighboring Czech Republic or
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
. Also, through the
Erasmus programme and partnerships with universities in the USA, there are many English-, French- and Spanish-speaking students. The language spoken during lessons is nearly always German on most faculties. To prepare for admissions to the university, many foreign students attend German language courses at the university-affiliated language school .
International students interested in TU Dresden should visit the websites of th
''Akademisches Auslandsamt''(International office) for more information. This office is responsible for handling international applications. At the end of 2011, 13.7% of beginning students came from abroad.
A number of activities for international students facilitates their integration and help students to find new friends. Most notably the ''Erasmus-Initiative TU Dresden'' offers many group activities throughout the semester which are open to all students (not only to Erasmus participants). A student-run program, the ''LinkPartnerProgramm'' matches every interested international student with a German student, to help him or her with questions arising during the first weeks, be it regarding course registration or any other issue students might have.
Leisure activities
Sports are very popular among the TUD students. There are eight big students' clubs and the summer campus party is considered to be the biggest in Germany. There are cafeterias as at most universities and the largest
refectory
A refectory (also frater, frater house, fratery) is a dining room, especially in monastery, monasteries, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places the term is most often used today is in graduate seminary, seminaries. The name ...
can compete with some restaurants even as far as menu size.
Performing arts ensembles
Among the many groups at the TU Dresden are four major ensembles. These four include the theater group which has a small ensemble directed by professionals, and the folk dance group which is dedicated to reviving regional styles of dance. The last two groups are the largest by far and these are the university choir and the university orchestra, both having student and non-student members of all ages. In 1997 a part of the university orchestra branched off into a chamber ensemble, becoming the , and since it consists almost exclusively of students the ensemble rehearses and performs only during the academic year. Each of these major ensembles performs an average of one to four times per semester. These performances often take place in Saxony but also occasionally internationally.
Funding
The university is currently developing new strategies to make itself more independent from state funding and decision making. With regard to its ability to generate research money from industry partners, the TU Dresden belongs to the most successful in Germany. In 2004 3,564 projects were financed with 104.1 million Euros from outside sources (other than state funds). It has one of the highest shares of income by industry partnerships.
Points of interest
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Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Dresden
The ''Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Dresden'' (3.25 hectares), also known as the ''Botanischer Garten Dresden'' or Dresden Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden maintained by the Dresden University of Technology. It is loca ...
, the university's
botanical garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is ...
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Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt
The Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt (; 33.4 hectares), also known as the Sächsisches Landesarboretum (‘Saxony State Arboretum’), is an arboretum maintained by the Dresden University of Technology. It is among the oldest arboreta in the worl ...
, the university's historic
arboretum
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* Archives of the university
Notable people
Honorary doctors
* 1905
Wilhelm von Siemens – Industrialist
* 1906
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Graf, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (; 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a General (Germany), German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the ...
– Lieutenant general and airship pioneer
* 1928
Heinrich Rickert
Heinrich John Rickert (; ; 25 May 1863 – 25 July 1936) was a German philosopher, one of the leading neo-Kantians.
Life
Rickert was born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdańsk, Poland) to the journalist and later politician Heinrich Edwin Rickert a ...
– Philosopher
*1928
Fredrik Ljungström
Fredrik Ljungström (16 June 1875 – 18 February 1964) was a Swedes, Swedish engineer, Industrial design, technical designer, and industrialist.
Considered one of the foremost inventors of Sweden, Fredrik Ljungström accounted for hundreds ...
– Engineer, inventor
* 1981
Konrad Zuse
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; ; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, List of pioneers in computer science, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programm ...
– Civil engineer and computer scientist who built the world's first programmable computer
* 1987
Karl Reinisch :''Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at :de:Karl Reinisch; see its history for attribution.''
Karl Reinisch (21 August 1921 – 24 January 2007) was a German electrical engineer and professor for contro ...
– Engineer
* 1989
Kurt A. Körber
Kurt A. Körber (September 7, 1909 – August 10, 1992) was a German founder and businessman, who founded a group of companies including the Hauni Maschinenbau AG, an internationally leading company for the production of machines for the tobacco ...
– Entrepreneur who founded
Körber Group
* 1990
Günther Landgraf – Physicist, rector of TU Dresden from 1990 to 1994
* 1995
Václav Havel
Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissol ...
– Writer, dissident and first president of the Czech Republic
* 1999
Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founder a ...
– Former United Nations Secretary-General
* 2002
Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn (; March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist.
He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the un ...
– Physicist, recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Honorary senators
* 1997
Günther Landgraf – Rector of TU Dresden 1990–1994
* 2000
Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel (; May 21, 1936 – February 18, 2018) was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in ...
– Recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Faculty
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Manfred von Ardenne
Manfred baron von Ardenne (; 20 January 190726 May 1997) was a German researcher, autodidact in applied physics, and an inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear techn ...
– Physics
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Heinrich Barkhausen
Heinrich Georg Barkhausen (2 December 1881 – 20 February 1956) was a German physicist who established an influential research laboratory in Dresden. The phenomenon by which ferromagnetic domains align during magnetization and produce discr ...
1911–1953 (not continuously) – Communications technology. Discoverer of the Barkhausen jumps, a manifestation of domain wall movement in magnets.
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Alfred Baeumler 1924–1933 – Nazi-philosopher and educationalist
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Kurt Beyer – Civil engineering
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Manfred Buchroithner — Cartography
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Adolf Busemann
Adolf Busemann (20 April 1901 – 3 November 1986) was a German aerospace engineer and influential Nazi-era pioneer in aerodynamics, specialising in supersonic airflows. He introduced the concept of swept wings and, after emigrating in 1947 to th ...
– Aerodynamics
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Carl Gustav Carus
Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 – 28 July 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romanticism, Romantic era. A friend of the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a ...
– Medicine
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Gerhard Fettweis – Engineering
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Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly a ...
– Nuclear technology, soviet spy
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Hanns Bruno Geinitz – Geology
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Gustav Kafka 1923–1934 – Psychology
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Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer (9 October 188111 February 1960) was a German literary scholar and diarist. His journals, published posthumously in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the fascist Nazi Germany, Third ...
1920–1935 – Professor for romance studies; He wrote "
LTI", an analysis of the Nazi's language, and detailed dairies during the Nazi time.
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Richard Kroner 1924–1928 – Philosopher (Religion)
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Luise Krüger
Luise Krüger (January 11, 1915 – June 13, 2001) was a female, German athlete, who competed mainly in the javelin. She won the bronze medal for her native country at the 1934 Women's World Games in London and the silver medal at the ...
– Athlete
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Günther Landgraf – Physics, first freely elected rector of TUD
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Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann 1921–1998 – Mathematician, professor, first lectures in
informatics
Informatics is the study of computational systems. According to the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Europe Council and Informatics Europe, informatics is synonymous with computer science and computing as a profession, in which the centra ...
in the
GDR
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ...
1967
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Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann
Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann (31 January 1796 – 20 February 1840) was a Saxon cartographer, astronomer, meteorologist and patron of the sciences.
He was born in Dresden, the son of a brickmaster. In 1810 he attended school at the ''Pfeilschmi ...
– Astronomer, Geodete
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Richard von Mises
Richard Martin Edler von Mises (; 19 April 1883 – 14 July 1953) was an Austrian scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of ...
– Mathematician, Professor for Hydro- und Aerodynamics
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Maria Reiche
Maria Reiche Grosse-Neumann (15 May 1903 – 8 June 1998) was a German-born Peruvian mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator. She is known for her research into the Nazca Lines, which she first saw in 1941 together with American ...
– (1903–1988) – mathematician,
archaeologist
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, and
technical translator
Technical may refer to:
* Technical (vehicle), an improvised fighting vehicle
* Technical area, an area which a manager, other coaching personnel, and substitutes are allowed to occupy during a football match
* Technical advisor, a person who ad ...
has studied in this University.
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Roland Scholl
Roland Heinrich Scholl (30 September 1865 – 22 August 1945) was a Swiss chemist who taught at various European universities. Among his most notable achievements are the synthesis of coronene, the co-development of the Bally-Scholl synthesis, ...
1918–1934 – Chemist; director of the institute for organic chemistry
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Wilhelm Steinkopf 1919–1940 – Chemist
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Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillich (; ; August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German and American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twenti ...
1925–1929 – Philosopher (Religion)
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Gustav Zeuner
Gustav Anton Zeuner (30 November 1828 – 17 October 1907) was a German physicist, engineer and epistemologist, considered the founder of technical thermodynamics and of the Dresden School of Thermodynamics.
Life
University and Revolution
Z ...
– Engineer
Alumni
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Afroz Ahmad
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Carl Theodor Albrecht
Carl Theodor Albrecht (August 30, 1843, Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony – August 31, 1915) was a German astronomer.
He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the TU Dresden and the Universität Berlin. During his time in Dresden, he help ...
– Surveyor
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Fritz Bleyl
Hilmar Friedrich Wilhelm Bleyl, known as Fritz Bleyl (8 October 1880 – 19 August 1966), was a German artist of the Expressionist school, and one of the four founders of artist group Die Brücke ("The Bridge"). He designed graphics fo ...
– (Architecture) Architect and painter of expressionism
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Kwong-Chai Chu (朱光彩) – Chinese hydraulic engineer who received his CIE (
Chinese Institute of Engineers) Award in 1947
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Carl Enckell
Carl Johan Alexis Enckell (7 June 1876 – 26 March 1959) was a Finnish politician, diplomat, officer and businessman.
Enckell followed his father's footsteps in the Russian military and rose to the Imperial Russian Guard. As he was not satisf ...
– (Mechanical Engineering) Finnish politician
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Erik von Frenckell
Erik von Frenckell (18 November 1887 – 13 September 1977) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish nobleman, member of the Parliament of Finland, member of the International Olympic Committee and a vice president of the International Football Associat ...
– (Engineering) a sports administrator, member of
IOC
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; , CIO) is the international, non-governmental, sports governing body of the modern Olympic Games. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas, it is based in L ...
and vice president of
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to o ...
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Steffen Heidrich
Steffen Heidrich (born 19 July 1967) is a German former professional Association football, footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Career As a player
In his youth Steffen Heidrich played for BSG Messgeräte Beierfeld and in 1980 he be ...
– (Business Management) Former footballer
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Rudolph Hering – (Civil Engineering)
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Katja Kipping
Katja Kipping (born 18 January 1978) is a German politician of The Left (Germany), The Left party. She was a member of the Bundestag representing Saxony from 2005 to 2021, a federal co-leader of The Left from 2012 to 2021 alongside Bernd Riexinge ...
– Chairwoman of German
Left Party
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Max Littmann
Max Littmann (3 January 1862 - 20 September 1931) was a German architect.
Education
Littmann was educated in the Chemnitz University of Technology and the Dresden University of Technology. In 1885, he moved to Munich where he met Friedrich ...
– (Civil engineering) Architect
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Ingrid Mertig
Ingrid Mertig is a German materials scientist who is a professor and fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics. She was awarded the Institute of Physics Max Born Medal and Prize.
Early life and education
Mertig studied phys ...
– materials scientist and institute professor
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Reimund Neugebauer – (Mechanical Engineering) Designated President of
Fraunhofer Society
The Fraunhofer Society () is a German publicly-owned research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on Basic re ...
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Theodor Pallady
Theodor Pallady (; 11 April 1871 – 16 August 1956) was a Romanian painter.
Biography
Theodor Pallady was the son of Ioan Pallady and Maria Cantacuzino, the older sister of Romanian diplomat Neculai B. Cantacuzino. He was born in Iași, Roman ...
– Romanian painter
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Evgeny Paton – (Engineering) Ukrainian
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Ernst Otto Schlick
Ernst Otto Schlick (16 June 1840, Grimma – 10 April 1913, Hamburg) was a German naval engineer. He tried to solve the problem of rolling of ships at sea by installing large gyroscopes. The gyroscopic "stabilizers" gave disappointing or danger ...
– (Engineering) Shipbuilding engineer
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Herbert Seifert
Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert (; 27 May 1907, Bernstadt – 1 October 1996, Heidelberg) was a German mathematician known for his work in topology.
Biography
Seifert was born in Bernstadt auf dem Eigen, but soon moved to Bautzen, where he atte ...
– Mathematician
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Johannes Paul Thilman – (Science of Culture) Composer
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Stanislaw Tillich
Stanislaw Rudi Tillich (; , ; born 10 April 1959) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 3rd Minister President of Saxony from 2008 to 2017. From 1 November 2015 until 31 October 2016, he was Preside ...
– (Mechanical Engineering) Minister-President of Saxony
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Eckhard Platen
Eckhard Platen is a German/Australian mathematician, financial economist, academic, and author. He is an emeritus Professor of Quantitative Finance at the University of Technology Sydney.
Platen is most known for his research on numerical methods ...
– Mathematician
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Oliver Wehner - Politician
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Jan Józef Werewka – Information scientist
Footnote
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