TU Dresden

The Technische Universität Dresden has its roots in the Royal Saxon Technical School that was founded in 1828. Today it is a university that unites the natural and engineering sciences with humanities, social sciences, and medicine. This wide range of disciplines, which is unique in Germany, brings the obligation for the university to promote interdisciplinarity and contribute to the integration of science and society.
The Technische Universität Dresden had its roots in the Royal Saxon Technical School, founded in 1828. Today, it is a university that coalesces natural and engineering sciences with humanities and social sciences and medicine. This wide range of disciplines, unique in Germany, obligates the university to promote interdisciplinarity and contribute to integrating science into society.
The Technische Universität Dresden aims to balance professional and personal responsibilities and strives to ensure equal opportunity in all its employment practices. The members of the Technische Universität Dresden cultivate positive, trusting relationships in teaching, studies, and research. In this environment, different biographies and career aspirations are enabled to develop to their fullest potential. The Technische Universität Dresden maintains close relations with its alumni and supporters and invites them to stay involved in university activities.
The Technische Universität Dresden promotes the international character of the university and its members and cross-border cooperation in research and teaching. The university engages in worldwide cooperation and is proud of its direct and close contacts with scientific institutions outside of the academic community, with companies and cultural institutions in Dresden.
The Technische Universität Dresden combines tradition with innovation, thereby benefiting from the historic cultural landscape of the Free State of Saxony and the city of Dresden. As an active member of civil society, it contributes by pursuing knowledge and research transfer to enterprises' productivity and institutions of the region and beyond.
Together with the university hospital, the Technische Universität Dresden, with its medical facilities, is a primary healthcare provider. The Technische Universität Dresden is committed to paying particular attention to environmental planning and protection.
A stable diversity in research and teaching form the basis for the further successful development of the Technische Universität Dresden. As part of its core competencies, it promotes and develops its fields of excellence.
Excellence is born out of the unity between outstanding research and passionate teaching. All disciplines represented at the university have their foundation in expertise, initiative spirit, creative curiosity, dedication to performance, communication, and the ability to cope with criticism. All members participate in the continuous process of researching by learning and learning by researching. The Technische Universität Dresden strives to ensure maximum efficiency and transparency in all decisions and administrative actions.
The TU Dresden is one of eleven German Universities of Excellence since June 2012. This distinction confirms the potential of one of Germany's largest technical universities. But it is also an incentive and a guiding principle to stay and become even more "excellent".
For this reason, TU Dresden is also participating in the follow-up program of the Excellence Initiative, which was agreed on in summer 2016 and named the "Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments".
The Institutional Strategy is embedded in a long-term overall development plan, which the TU Dresden will use to change and further develop its strategies, structures, and organizational culture. It includes six action areas to which specific measures are allocated.
The Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is one of the largest "Technische Universitäten" in Germany and one of the leading and most dynamic universities in Germany. As a full-curriculum university with 18 faculties in five schools, it offers a wide variety of 122 disciplines and covers a broad research spectrum. Its focuses on Biomedicine, Bioengineering, Materials sciences, Information technology, Microelectronics, and Energy and Environment are considered exemplary in Germany and throughout Europe.
Since 2012 TUD is officially one of the "Universities of Excellence." Its core elements are the "Institutional Strategy," the Clusters of Excellence "Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden" (cfaed), "Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), and the Graduate School "Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering" (DIGS-BB).
About 36.000 students are enrolled at TUD – more than three times as many as in 1990 (11.220 students). Internationally, the TUD has earned a good reputation; about one-eighth of its students come from abroad. Today, about 5.000 scientists from 70 countries are working at the Technische Universität Dresden.
TU Dresden's main campus is located south of the Dresden city center and can be easily reached by bus (bus lines 61, 66, 85) and by tram (tram lines 3 and or via the A17 highway (exit: "Dresden Südvorstadt"). The external university campuses are located in Tharandt (Department of Forest Sciences), in Dresden-Blasewitz (University Hospital and "Biocampus"), in Dresden-Johannstadt (Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology) and Pirna (Institute of Waste Management) and Zittau (IHI).