Technical University of Berlin

The Technical University of Berlin is a public technical university in Charlottenburg, Berlin. It traces its lineage to the Mining Academy of 1770 and the Building Academy of 1799. The Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg was formed in 1879, and the institution took its present name in 1946 after wartime destruction and reopening. It is a German technical university in the TU9 grouping, with engineering and the applied sciences as its core.

Seven faculties cover the humanities; mathematics and natural sciences; process sciences; electrical engineering and computer science; mechanical engineering and transport systems; planning, building and environment; and economics and management. Strengths include electrical and mechanical engineering, computer science, planning, and the physical sciences. Graduate students work in faculty institutes and in coordinated schools such as the Berlin Mathematical School, on a campus along Strasse des 17. Juni.

Enrollment is about 35,000 students, of whom more than 20 percent are international, from more than 130 countries. Academic staff number in the thousands when professors, lecturers, and research employees are counted together. Alumni include computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, who studied civil engineering at the Technische Hochschule, and chemist Carl Bosch, who studied at the Charlottenburg school.

Graduate study follows the Bologna pattern of master's degrees and the German doctorate (Dr.-Ing. or Dr. rer. nat.), with both individual supervision and structured graduate schools. The year is divided into winter and summer semesters. Doctoral researchers are often employed on public research contracts. Daily life is an inner-city technical campus in western Berlin, with laboratories and U-Bahn access.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Technical University of Berlin lists 1 master's program, in computer science. Technical University of Berlin holds rank 210 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.