Excellence in the subject area, in combination with a breadth of acquired knowledge; wide range of options and specialisation areas in Informatics fields; tutorials and practicals in small groups; modern technical equipment; practice-related training through close contact between research and an excellent industrial environment; excellent opportunities for exchange studies.

KTH Stockholm,Schweden; ETH Zürich, Schweiz; TELECOM ParisTech, Frankreich; Ecole Polytechnique, Frankreich; TU Delft, Niederlande; EPFL Lausanne, Schweiz; Tokyo University of Technology, Japan; Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Modern IT infrastructure in the new faculty building at the Garching Campus; approximately 300 public computer workstations for students; campus-wide wireless access (Laptop University); additional computer rooms in the chairs; student workspaces available 24 hours/day; national Supercomputing Centre LRZ (Leibniz Computing Centre) in the immediate vicinity.

Algorithms, Verification, Theory, Bioinformatics; Energy Informatics; Graphics, Visualisation, Image Comprehension; Informatics in Medicine; Information Security; Cognition for Technical Systems; Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Computation, Computational Engineering; Software and Data Engineering; Distributed Intelligent Systems; Scientific Computing; Business Informatics.

“UnternehmerTUM – Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the TUM” is a local cooperation partner that offers entrepreneurs and start-ups full-range services from the idea to the IPO. A team of experienced entrepreneurs, scholars and managers supports entrepreneurs in the development of products, services and business models. Experts provide active supervision in the set-up of companies, market entry and financing – also via venture capital.

Dialogue with industry; fast knowledge transfer and intensive collaboration with local companies; participation in six elite degree courses in the Elite Network of Bavaria; holiday academies; mentoring programmes; international study programmes Study rooms are available to students (e.g. in the library or at the chairs).