Technical University of Munich

The Technical University of Munich, usually called TUM, is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It was established in 1868 when King Ludwig II of Bavaria founded the Polytechnische Schule München, which became the Technische Hochschule München in 1877 and took its present name in 1970. The university specialises in engineering, technology, medicine and the applied and natural sciences, and it grew from a school of about 350 students into one of the largest universities in Germany, with additional campuses at Garching, Freising, Heilbronn, Straubing, Ottobrunn and Singapore. Garching, where a research reactor was built in 1956 and the physics, chemistry, biology and geoscience departments later moved, is its largest campus. TUM is organised into seven schools and supported by numerous research centres. Its researchers and alumni include 19 Nobel laureates and 26 Leibniz Prize winners, and it holds University of Excellence status under the German Universities Excellence Initiative.