TU Berlin – Paving the way to the future

The statue of Nike, located in the atrium of the TU main building

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The internationally renowned Technische Universität Berlin is located in Germany’s capital city at the heart of Europe. Our activities focus on achieving four sharply-defined core goals: building a distinctive profile for our university, ensuring exceptional performance in research and teaching, providing our graduates with excellent qualifications, in addition to a forward-looking approach to efficient university governance. The TU Berlin strives to promote the accumulation of knowledge and to facilitate technological progress by adhering to the fundamental principles of excellence and quality. Strong regional, national and international networking with partners in science and industry is an important aspect in all these endeavors.

Our research and teaching endeavors are characterized by a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, ranging from engineering science to natural science, planning science and economics, as well as the humanities and social sciences.

A number of successfully implemented reforms have helped to craft a new image for the TU Berlin. The number of courses we offer has been reduced by half over the past ten years. The university also took this opportunity to sharpen its own distinct profile. Today, the TU Berlin is distinguished by its exceptional course offerings and scientific orientation. We are the only university in the entire region to offer engineering sciences. In our role as a leading research university, we also promote cooperation between science and industry, as amply demonstrated by the high volume of external funding we receive.

The university’s new administrative and committee structure guarantees efficient university governance and allows us to separate strategic tasks from operative ones while ensuring a high degree of autonomy. Such reforms have attracted a number of noted personalities, who now provide expert advice to university administrators. In the future, a comprehensive approach to quality management will be anchored in the fundamental principles of good university governance.

The southern campus of the TU Berlin as seen from the Straße des 17. Juni. The main building is visible in the center of the image.

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To further underpin the university’s renewal process, a number of reform projects have been implemented in the university administration sector; these range from Facility Management to self-management of material costs and staff appropriations by the schools themselves. Extensive construction projects will give our university a “new look” in just a few years. With most of our schools located in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district we are indeed a “university of short hops”.

Taken together, these measures illustrate the TU Berlin’s ongoing commitment to focusing its activities in order to better confront the current competitive environment and to face the challenges of tomorrow.