Fakultät für Mathematik at the TU München/Garching

TU München/Garching

Boltzmannstraße 3
85748 Garching
Phone: +49 89 2891-7583

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Basic information

Total number of students	1,360
Number of master degree students	710
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	0.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	0.0 %

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/14 points

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	80.6 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	38.5 %

Research

Publications per academic	2.4
Third party funds per academic	42.2 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.8

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	2.0
Support in studies	1.7
Courses offered	1.6
Study organisation	1.4
Exams	1.8
Research orientation	1.9
Support for stays abroad	1.4
Rooms	1.4
Library	1.3
IT-infrastructure	1.5
Workstations	1.9
Overall study situation	1.5

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support	2.0
Support in studies	1.9
Courses offered	1.5
Study organisation	1.6
Transition to Master's studies	1.5
Research orientation	1.8
Overall study situation	1.8

Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

Teacher qualification students	no data
Teacher qualification programmes	no data
Teacher qualification centre	Link
Teacher Qualification Monitor (in German)	Link

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Activities: Two advisers for international affairs (outgoing/incoming)= intensive advising; administrative procedures coordinated with study abroad (special examinations in case of collision of semester times, mobility window in all degree programs); language of instruction for all Master's programs English; scholarships for outstanding students from abroad; John von Neumann Professorship: outstanding international visiting professors; International Graduate School (ISAM) Results: Highest Erasmus exchange figures (in/out) according to DAAD, min. 60% international quota; increase in number of international students.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
University of British Columbia, Kanada; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; CIMAT, Mexiko; Copenhagen University, Dänemark; National University of Singapore, Singapur; HKUST, Hong Kong; Queensland University, Australien; KTH Stockholm, Schweden; Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Frankreich; Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Schweiz
Special features regarding the equipment
Top modern IT equipment: Video transmission between all major lecture theatres; WiFi coverage in all buildings; sockets in to charge laptops in the main lecture theatres and under the tables of the main thoroughfares of Mathematics/Computer Science; online library access; info screens for quick information for students; inter-disciplinary research campus with over 13,000 students from different subject areas; our building offers students an exciting and creative environment such as the largest parabola slide in the world or one of the most modern trading simulation rooms in the world.
Special features regarding research activities
The Faculty of Mathematics at the TU München is one of the leading and most modern Mathematics institutes in Europe. Key area: The whole range of Applied Mathematics with particular focus on Numerics, Mathematical Physics, Optimisation, Biomathematics, Stochastics, Visualisation, Financial Mathematics and Data Sciences. Strong networking within the economic area of Munich; numerous research prizes and funding. Supra-regional and international third-party funded projects with partner universities. We promote student research.
Support for founders
TUM sees itself as an entrepreneurial university and proactively promotes start-ups by its scientists and students. In particular, research results in mathematics have often been the basis of successful spin-offs. Mathematics professor as a founding ambassador to the Department of Mathematics. TUM start-up consulting through "TUM ForTe - Research Promotion and Technology Transfer". Especially in the financial sector industrial partner programme: "Fit for tomorrow.
Other special features
Always more than 100 graduates per year; key areas include Numerics, Optimisation, Biomathematics, Stochastics, Financial Mathematics; TUM graduates work successfully in the financial centres of London and Frankfurt amongst others, in large insurance companies (not only in the Munich area), at automotive companies, in the field of logistics or in the research departments of technically orientated companies or companies commissioned from there (numerical simulation), in strategic and operational planning, in consulting and software development; two thirds of the students go abroad
Further information on research activities
www.ma.tum.de
Further information about study entry phase
https://studium.ma.tum.de