Universities & research hubs

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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.

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70 LMU and TUM are also awarded with the recognition of elite universities. Both have a quite renowed history; the first was founded in 1472 in Ingolstadt and moved to Munich only in 1826 and added to the main campus in Maxvorstadt with two more focus in Großhadern and Martinsried, instead, TUM founded as Polytechnic School of Munich in 1868, changing then to Royal Bavarian Technical University Munich in 1877. It is only since the 1970 that is recognised by its acutal name and placed in two main campus, one nearby the Pinakothek in Maxvorstad and one in the north, in Garching, hosting the most of the activities.

Munich is Germany’s second-biggest university city and the one with the highest percentage of all employees registered for social security who are university graduates (32.9%). [10] [11]

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