{"id":147031,"date":"2018-06-08T12:54:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=147031"},"modified":"2018-06-08T12:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T10:54:01","slug":"munich-universities-tum-and-lmu-again-best-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/munich-universities-tum-and-lmu-again-best-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Munich Universities TUM and LMU again best in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TU Munich has regained some places in the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/university-rankings\/world-university-rankings\/2019\">QS World University Rankings<\/a>. For the 2019 list, TUM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/universities\/technical-university-munich#wurs\">ended 61st<\/a>, one spot above<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/universities\/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen#wurs\">Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen<\/a>. For TUM, this means an increase of three spots.\u00a0LMU reached its third consecutive uplift: from #75 in 2016 (when it had to absorb a fall of 23 places) to #62 in 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/universities\/ruprecht-karls-universitat-heidelberg#wurs\">Ruprecht-Karls-Universit\u00e4t Heidelberg<\/a>\u00a0(#64) is the third German University on the QS-list. MIT in Boston is the global #1.<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>TUM<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Consistently featured as one of the highest-ranked universities in Germany in the QS World University Rankings, Technical University of Munich (Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen), also known as TUM, was founded in 1868 and is a member of the TU9, an association of nine of Germany\u2019s most prestigious technical universities. TUM has 14 academic departments and 40,124 students, of which around 24% are international. It calls itself The Entrepreneurial University and aims to foster a supportive environment for budding entrepreneurs. There are 172 degree programs available including a selection of English-taught courses.<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>LMU<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen- the University in the heart of Munich &#8211; is recognized as one of Europe&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.en.uni-muenchen.de\/about_lmu\/academics\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">premier academic and research institutions<\/a>. Since its founding in 1472, LMU has attracted inspired scholars and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.en.uni-muenchen.de\/students\/int_student_guide\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talented students from around the globe.\u00a0<\/a>Its operation in teaching and research\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.en.uni-muenchen.de\/about_lmu\/academics\/faculties\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embraces a wide diversity of fields<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from the humanities and cultural studies through law, economics and social sciences to medicine and natural sciences. Its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.en.uni-muenchen.de\/about_lmu\/academics\/medical_center\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Center<\/a>\u00a0is, next to the Charit\u00e9 in Berlin, the most prestigious and largest institution of this kind in Germany. LMU has 35,035 students and 3,274 academic\u00a0staff members.<\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>QS<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>QS assessed 4,763 universities for the 2019 edition. The QS World University Rankings has existed since 2004 and is, together with the Times Higher Education Ranking and the ARWU\/Shanghai Ranking, leading worldwide and the most popular among international prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The QS World University Rankings is an annual ranking of universities that are ranked, among other things, by the quality of higher education and the academic research at those institutions. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is a British company that specializes in educational marketing. The QS rankings are published in a range of media including the American journal U.S. News &amp; World Report.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking results of QS are determined on the basis of six criteria: 40% Academic Reputation, 10% Employer Reputation, 20% Citations per paper (papers period 2011-2016, citations period 2012-2017), 20% Faculty Student, 5% International Faculty and 5% International Students. TU\/e scores best on the indicators Citations per Faculty, Faculty Student, and International Faculty. As far as internationalization is concerned, one-third of the academic staff at TU\/e now consists of foreign staff covering some 80 nationalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TU Munich has regained some places in the annual QS World University Rankings. For the 2019 list, TUM ended 61st, one spot aboveLudwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen. For TUM, this means an increase of three spots.\u00a0LMU reached its third consecutive uplift: from #75 in 2016 (when it had to absorb a fall of 23 places) to #62 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":503153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[24226,24228,24224,22932,24027,24230],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-147031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-lmu","tag-muenchen-en","tag-qs-en","tag-qs-world-university-ranking","tag-today","tag-tum"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart Brouwers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/brewbart\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/TUM-forschung.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">LMU<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">muenchen<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">QS<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">QS World University Ranking<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Today<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/category\/sustainability-nl\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">TUM<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">LMU<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">muenchen<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">QS<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">QS World University Ranking<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Today<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">TUM<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on June 8, 2018","modified":"Updated on June 8, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on June 8, 2018 12:54 pm","modified":"Updated on June 8, 2018 12:54 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147031"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=147031"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=147031"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=147031"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=147031"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=147031"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=147031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}