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QS Rankings: TUM among top 25 in five subjects
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TUM among top 25 in five subjects
New issue of QS World University Rankings
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is among the world’s 25 best universities in five subjects and among the top 50 in six other areas. These are among the results of the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. TUM placed 19th overall in engineering sciences and 28th in natural sciences.
The British university service provider QS Quacquarelli Symonds compiles its university quality rankings through surveys of academics and employers. It also collects data on the number of citations of published scientific papers as an indicator of the quality of research and assesses the international research networks of universities. These indicators are weighted according to the prevailing culture in the various subject areas.
In the latest edition, TUM moved up 10 places in Engineering and Technology, from 29th to 19th, and improved by three places in Natural Sciences, where it now ranks 28th. It is thus number one in Germany in both fields.
TUM placed among the top 25 universities worldwide in the following subjects:
• Physics / Astronomy: 16 (in Germany: 1)
• Electrical & Electronic Engineering: 18 (in Germany: 1)
• Architecture / Built Environment: 21 (in Germany: 2)
• Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering: 21 (in Germany: 2)
• Chemistry: 22 (in Germany: 1)
In another six subjects, TUM was among the top 50:
• Agriculture / Forestry: 27 (in Germany: 2)
• Computer Science / Information Systems: 29 (in Germany: 1)
• Statistics / Operational Research: 32 (in Germany: 1)
• Materials Science: 35 (in Germany: 3)
• Biological Sciences: 43 (in Germany: 3)
• Civil & Structural Engineering: 49 (in Germany: 1)
The latest issue of the QS World University Rankings, which shows overall ratings for universities and also takes other indicators into account, was already released in mid-2021. TUM holds the number 50 position, which makes it the third-best university in the European Union. It is top-ranked German university for the seventh consecutive year.
TUM also achieves excellent results in other subject area rankings. In the most recent THE World University Rankings by Subject, it placed 14th worldwide in computer science, 22nd in engineering, 23rd in physical sciences (comprising most natural sciences subjects) and 43rd in life sciences.
More information:
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022: https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2022
TUM in rankings: https://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/our-university/rankings
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of Europe’s leading research universities, with more than 600 professors, 48,000 students, and 11,000 academic and non-academic staff. Its focus areas are the engineering sciences, natural sciences, life sciences and medicine, combined with economic and social sciences. TUM acts as an entrepreneurial university that promotes talents and creates value for society. In that it profits from having strong partners in science and industry. It is represented worldwide with the TUM Asia campus in Singapore as well as offices in Beijing, Brussels, Mumbai, San Francisco, and São Paulo. Nobel Prize winners and inventors such as Rudolf Diesel, Carl von Linde, and Rudolf Mößbauer have done research at TUM. In 2006, 2012, and 2019 it won recognition as a German "Excellence University." In international rankings, TUM regularly places among the best universities in Germany.