Technical University of Berlin

Germany

Technical University of Berlin is a public research university which was established in the year 1879 and is located in Berlin, Germany. The TU Berlin is distributed over various locations in Berlin; the main campus is located in the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and the El Gouna campus: Technische Universität Berlin has established a satellite campus in Egypt. It is one of the most prestigious education institutions in Europe.

Technical University of Berlin is composed of seven faculties: Faculty of Geisteswissenschaften, Faculty of  Mathematics and natural sciences, Faculty of Process sciences and engineering, Faculty of Electrical engineering and computer science, Faculty of  Mechanical engineering and transport systems, Faculty of Planning, building – environment, and Faculty of Economics and management. All these faculties have more than 40 institutes and centres under them, such as: Institute of landscape architecture and environmental planning, Institute of Ecology, Institute of sociology, Institute of urban and regional planning, Institute of landscape architecture and environmental planning, Institute of Ecology, Institute of sociology, Institute of urban and regional planning, Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Center of gender studies, and many more. The university is known for its highly ranked engineering programmes, especially in mechanical engineering and engineering management.

Technical University of Berlin has more than 34,428 students registered in different undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The university has one of the highest proportions of international students in Germany which is around 20%. The university has more than 3,120 faculty members. 

Technical University of Berlin provides scholarships to students on the basis of academic excellence. The university is a member of TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable German institutes of technology and of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network,  which allows for student exchanges between leading engineering schools. It belongs to the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research. The university has ‘The new common main library’ which holds about 2.9 million volumes. The library building was sponsored partially by Volkswagen and is named officially "University Library of the TU Berlin and Udk (in the Volkswagen building)"

Notable Alumni: Stancho Belkovski (head of Higher Technical School in Sofia), Carl Bosch (Nobel Prize Winner), Franz Breisig (Inventor of the Calibration Wire)