QS World University Ranking: TUM again the best German technical university
Top rankings for the natural and engineering sciences
The is based on the universities鈥� reputation among scientists and industry, the number of citations per scientist, the supervisory relationship between lecturers and students, and the number of international employees and students. The rankings in the faculty areas are based on reputation and citations alone. The British human resources service provider QS uses both statistics and surveys carried out among scientists and human resource managers.
The TUM has managed to maintain the very strong position achieved in previous years (53rd in 2013). It performs particularly well in the natural sciences, for which it is ranked 19th, and the engineering sciences, for which it ranks 27th.
Apart from the TUM, the only German universities ranked among the top 100 are Heidelberg University (49th) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t M眉nchen (52nd). The second-ranked German technical university is the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which ranked 127th.
A month ago, the TUM also emerged as the best ranked German technical university in the , in which it achieved 53rd place.
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