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Harvard-Eingang mit Studierenden
6/5/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

After the Trump administration's visa ban

What TUM students are experiencing at Harvard

The Trump administration has announced plans to withdraw visas from international students and to impose an entry ban. This also affects TUM students.

Studies Community
6/5/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

NewIn: Hristo Svilenov

Proteins for tomorrow’s medicine

As Professor of Biopharmaceutical Technology, Hristo Svilenov is on the lookout for the pharmaceutical agents of the future. In this episode of NewIn, he talks about why working with living cells is so complex, how he handles setbacks, and how the immune system of cows could play a role in fighting antibiotic resistance.

Studies Research Community
A professor with students in a lesson.
6/4/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

Top rankings for teaching

TUM ranked 7th for the training of digital leaders

TUM is one of the universities whose graduates have the greatest impact on the digital economy worldwide. This is the result of the latest Digital Leaders in Higher Education rankings, in which TUM placed number 7. In the fields of Computer Science and Digital Entrepreneurship, it is again ranked 4th.

TUM in Rankings Studies Entrepreneurship Community
Mentoring kick-off of the Agnes-Mackensen-Program.
6/3/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Agnes-Mackensen-Program

Promoting first-generation students

The Agnes-Mackensen-Program aims to promote equal opportunities and to strengthen talent. It is designed for FINTA* students who are the first in their family to attend college. Anna Lena Salfer is one of them. The master's student is currently conducting research in Singapore.

TUM Magazine Studies Community
Portrait photo of Emmanuel Adjei, in the background an illuminated bicycle
6/2/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

TUM alumnus embarks on charity ride from Munich to Accra

10,000 kilometers to promote educational equity

Emmanuel Adjei, a sports scientist at the TUM University Hospital, is cycling from Munich to Accra – 10,000 kilometers, 150 days, 15 countries. With his campaign “Bike2MyRoots,” he is aiming to raise funds for an educational NGO. His goal: to inspire children in Africa, improve access to education, and promote inclusion and equal opportunities. He sets off on 7 June.

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Group photo of the Sailsetters student club
5/27/2025
Reading time: 8 Min.

In conversation with the founder of Sailsetters, a TUM Student Club for educational equity

“A good education can change an entire life.”

Social inequality takes root from the very first day of an educational journey. Children from families without an academic background are much less likely to go to university. Johannes Michalke wants to change that. With “Sailsetters” he founded a TUM Student Club that supports disadvantaged children and young people. In our interview, he shares what drives him – and why equal opportunities in education benefit us all.

Studies Campus news
Prof. Reinhold Mayer, chairman of the foundation, TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, dean Prof. Christoph Kaserer and Prof. Joachim Weber, member of the foundation's advisory board, after signing the agreement.
5/12/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

Péter Horváth Foundation strengthens TUM Campus Heilbronn

New endowed professorship for controlling and AI

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is establishing a new professorship for controlling and AI with the support of the Péter Horváth Foundation. The foundation will fund research and teaching with three million euros. The professorship will be established at the TUM Campus Heilbronn, which is doing research on the digital transformation of the corporate world.

President Studies Research Artificial Intelligence
Students in a TUM working space
5/9/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

TUM LEAP wins funding for innovative teaching architecture

Individual learning pathways for students

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is reimagining academic education. With its new initiative, TUM Learning Pathways (LEAP), the university is expanding the traditional study program model to offer flexible, interdisciplinary learning pathways tailored to individual needs. Designed to prepare students for an increasingly dynamic and uncertain professional world, the project has been awarded funding in the national Teaching Architecture competition organized by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education.

Teaching Studies
Students at TUM
5/8/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

Students assess engineering subjects in CHE Rankings

Very good ratings for studies at TUM

Engineering students are very satisfied with the teaching and study conditions at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). This is shown by the latest edition of the CHE University Rankings.

TUM in Rankings Studies
Blick über den Campus Heilbronn.
4/14/2025
Reading time: 1 Min.

Podcast "We Are TUM"

A visit to the Campus Heilbronn

In this episode we report from the TUM Campus Heilbronn, which has developed rapidly over the past six years: More than 1,000 students from all over the world, close ties to companies, and exciting topics related to AI, management, and digitalization.We talk to those who are helping to shape the location-from the students' perspective to strategic visions for the coming years.

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