Since its founding 49 years ago, TU Dortmund University has developed a very own profile. With 16 faculties ranging from science and engineering to social sciences and cultural studies, the university currently has nearly 34,600 students and 6,200 members, including 300 professors. There are about 80-degree programs to choose from, some classic, some innovative, and some even unique to this university. We also offer a comprehensive program of teacher training for all types of schools. All our scientific disciplines share a familiar university spirit in which interdisciplinarity, communication, and cooperation are taught and actively lived by. This interactive culture creates a supportive environment that sparks technological innovation and drives advances in methods and knowledge.
The International Office is responsible for cooperation at the international level. Whether you are a student, a doctoral candidate, or an academic from abroad, if you are thinking of coming to Dortmund or have already joined the university, this is the place to come. The International Office also supports students from TU Dortmund University who want to study abroad.
Around 6,500 new students enroll at TU Dortmund University every year, choosing from a range of classic and innovative courses: Approximately 80 Bachelor's and Master's degree programs are offered, including a comprehensive program of about 30 teacher training courses. Sixty percent of TU Dortmund University's 34,600 plus students have opted for engineering and scientific disciplines forty percent are enrolled in cultural studies or social science programs. When they do not attend lectures and seminars, our students can join various initiatives and participate in more than 65 different university sports. We also offer a whole range of cultural activities, such as the student orchestra and the university film club.
Over 1,000 third-party funded projects bear witness to TU Dortmund University's strong focus on research, including a range of collaborative projects such as (transregional) Collaborative Research Centers, Research Units, Research Training Groups, a Cluster of Excellence, and several Horizon 2020 research consortia. Nearly 300 professors teach and research at TU Dortmund University.
The university is particularly renowned for research in its four profile areas: Production and Logistics, Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes and Systems and Youth, School and Education Research, in which it celebrates research successes beyond disciplinary limits, and at an outstanding international level.
Strong institutional networks in the science and engineering profile areas play a significant role in TU Dortmund's research successes. One Max Planck institute, two Fraunhofer Institutes, and two Leibniz institutes, and the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), are located near the campus.
All our scientific disciplines share a familiar university spirit in which interdisciplinarity, communication, and cooperation are taught and actively lived by. This interactive culture creates a supportive environment that sparks technological innovation and drives advances in methods and knowledge.
Research at TU Dortmund University enjoys particular national and international visibility in its four profile areas. Research projects in these fields account for more than two-thirds of third-party funding. Additionally, the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr) pools its three-member universities Dortmund, Bochum, and Duisburg-Essen, in two UA Ruhr Flagship Programs.
In the broad, interdisciplinary profile area" Production and Logistics," researchers explore the entire life-cycle of products and production plants. Extensive cooperation between the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML) with the Faculties of Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics gives rise to several significant projects and research consortia.
Industrial Engineering at TU Dortmund University is considered among the best in the country, as evidenced by its leading position in the German Research Foundation's" Funding Atlas." As the latest addition in 2017, TU Dortmund University coordinates the newly established Transregio 188, a Collaborative Research Center to study" Damage Controlled Forming Processes." Likewise, the Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering is incredibly successful in the field of material-converting production.
Dortmund is also a prominent logistics location, strengthened further by the interdisciplinary logistics research center LogistikCampus. This center was established in a joint effort by TU Dortmund University and the Fraunhofer IML to provide scientific and technical know-how. Fraunhofer IML, TU Dortmund University, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) also initiated and implemented the "EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr", a BMBF leading-edge cluster whose 180 corporate partners and 20 research institutions make it Europe's largest logistics research project.
New developments in the biosciences depend significantly on our understanding of the underlying molecular biological processes and the development of new Microtech tools. This is why TU Dortmund University has developed a research profile area with a strong focus on Chemistry and Molecular Biology and a microtechnology component. Our research in Chemical Biology focuses on the function, modification, and interactions between proteins and modulators. Our second focus in scientific research is the biotechnological production of fine chemicals and drug precursors, including the steps necessary to separate and process them.
In this profile area, the Faculties of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Chemical Biology and Physics participate in the Cluster of Excellence" RESOLV – Ruhr Explores Solvation" at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. TU Dortmund University also cooperates closely with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (MPI) and the Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS).
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