TU Dortmund University
Since its founding more than 50 years ago, TU Dortmund University has developed a special profile encompassing 17 departments ranging from science and engineering to social sciences and culture studies. The university has about 30,000 students and more than 6,500 employees, including around 330 professors.
TU Dortmund University has a strong focus on research. Its disciplines—including mechanical engineering with an emphasis on production and logistics, physics, biochemical and chemical engineering, statistics, computer science, and education research—are renowned for their outstanding research achievements at both the national and international levels.
The University offers around 90 classical subjects and innovative courses, including more than 25 English-taught Master’s degree programmes. To find out more about these English-taught Master’s degree programmes, admission deadlines, and application procedures, please visit here.
With a strong focus on research and innovation, TU Dortmund University is internationally recognised for its research excellence, numerous research awards with around more than 1,000 third-party funded projects, extensive global collaborations, and major research initiatives, including two Clusters of Excellence.
TU Dortmund University’s interdisciplinary research is centred around five strategic profile areas that bring together expertise from across disciplines to address key scientific and societal challenges:
- From Elementary Particles to Products Along Value Added Networks
- Innovations for Sustainability and Health
- Data, Models and Simulations to Shape Our Future
- Educational and Labor Worlds of Tomorrow
- Society and Transformational Processes in the 21st Century
By fostering collaboration across departments and with partners worldwide, these profile areas drive pioneering research, inspire innovation, and contribute to sustainable solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow.
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