Hochschule für Politik München (HfP) an der TUM at the TU München

TU München

Richard-Wagner-Straße 1
80333 München
Phone: +49 89 907793-040

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Basic information

Teaching staff in core subjects

Teaching staff at the department	24
Total number of students	190
Number of master degree students	34

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	no graduates at the time of data collection
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	no graduates in the surveyed period

International orientation

International orientation, bachelor's	4/9 points
International orientation, master's	6/9 points

Research

Research reputation

0.1 %

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	no survey
Support in studies	no survey
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Study organisation	no survey
Exams	no survey
Research orientation	no survey
Job market preparation	no survey
Support for stays abroad	no survey
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Library	no survey
IT-infrastructure	no survey
Overall study situation	no survey

Degree courses with details

Teacher qualification

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

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

none

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Partnerships with renowned universities around the world and student & staff exchange (research- & non-research) via the TUM’s own exchange programme "TUMExchange", department’s own Erasmus & inter-departmental exchange partnerships; More than half of newly appointed professors do not have German citizenship or have extensive international experience; All have excellent links with the international research community; Institutional membership in ECPR, APSA & ISA; Mobility fund for PhD candidates; Series of courses with international lecturers; Internship exchange with international partners/companies
Special features regarding the international orientation
Partnerships with renowned universities around the world and student & staff exchange (research- & non-research) via the TUM’s own exchange programme "TUMExchange", department’s own Erasmus & inter-departmental exchange partnerships; More than half of newly appointed professors do not have German citizenship or have extensive international experience; All have excellent links with the international research community; Institutional membership in ECPR, APSA & ISA; Mobility fund for PhD candidates; Series of courses with international lecturers; Internship exchange with international partners/companies
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Sciences Po Paris, Frankreich; PUC-Rio, Brasilien; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA; Tsinghua University, China; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; University of Geneva, Schweiz; University of Oslo, Norwegen; University of New South Wales, Australien
Support for founders
Possibility to attend and gain credits for seminars, workshops, lectures and courses for skills building (e.g. in the areas of market evaluation, entrepreneurial thinking and approach, technology evaluation, business model and business plan development) in the interdisciplinary part of degree programmes; it is possible to take leave from a degree programme to start a business; series of events including discussions with practitioners; access to the extensive advisory and support services of the TUM (https://www.tum.de/wirtschaft/entrepreneurship/gruendungsberatung/)
Characteristics of assistance to differently abled persons
Implementation of the TUM Diversity Code of Conduct: https://www.chancengleichheit.tum.de/inklusion/tum-diversity-code-of-conduct/) auf Fak.ebene; individual guidance and support; monitoring/early warning systems for suboptimal progression; high degree of flexibility possible for individually organising studies, especially with part-time study model and possibility of changing between study formats according to personal circumstances; involvement of a disability officer (->institutionalisation) in the application process; implementing accessible infrastructure
Characteristics of diversity advancement
Enforcement of the Bavarian Gender Equality Act: monitoring of gender and diversity equality in personnel development, recruitment and application processes; intensifying Gender in research and teaching (professorship for Gender Studies in Engineering in the corresponding faculty); support with combining family and professional commitments, e.g part-time programmes and corresponding working time models; institutionalisation: Election of a (professorial) women’s officer and her (professorial) representative during the constitutional faculty meeting of 25.10.17; internationalisation through the 100% English-speaking Master’s programme
Other special features
Content and structural reorientation of the university including creation of a corresponding faculty at the interface of politics/society/technology/business; Innovative, and nationally and internationally unique, new approach in the definition of political science; The courses of study and the research of the HfP are future-oriented, transdisciplinary and application-related; Close cooperation with the faculties of the Technical University of Munich in research and cooperation in the field of teaching
Further information on research activities
www.hfp.tum.de/studium/
Further information about study entry phase
https://www.schueler.tum.de/studieninteressierte/