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Munich can easily be considered as a hub of knowledge, a leading location for science and research with a long list of Nobel Prize laureates from Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1901 to Theodor Hänsch in 2005. The Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and the Technische Universität München (TU or TUM), have around 90.000 students together. That, summed with the others more or less 25 between institutes, research centres as the Max Planck Society and severalother universities go up to 120 thousand students. Of the more than 50 thousand students at LMU, 60% are women and 16% are foreigns and a personell of 7000 employees, working in 18 faculties. At TUM 29% of the 40 thousands students are from outer countries and 35% are female. The university counts 10 thousand employees offering 173 courses in 14 faculties, 6 Research Centres and 7 Scientific Institutes.
