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TU Dresden: One of Germany's Most Successful Universities
in Rankings, Fundings and Patents

With around 320 million euros in annual funding, TU TU Dresden’s research also boasts a globally excellent
Dresden is one of the universities with the highest level reputation. In the “QS World University Rankings by
of third-party funding in Germany. This applies to both Subject 2023,” it achieved an outstanding rank in
publicly funded, fundamental research and application- several subjects. In the subject group “Engineering
oriented research as part of its cooperation with and Technology,” TUD ranked 97 worldwide. In the
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businesses. individual areas, “Materials Science” is placed as high
as 30 , while “Electrical & Electronic Engineering” has
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In the current Funding Atlas of the German Research jumped from 104 (2022) to 97 .
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Foundation (DFG), Germany’s most important public
institution for research funding, TU Dresden ranked 5 TU Dresden is the university with the most patents in
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amongst the most successful universities. Germany. It leads the current ranking of the German
Economic Institute (IW) by a wide margin. The IW
Every three years, the DFG presents their Funding Atlas: analyzed the number of patent applications from 2010
a detailed evaluation of public research funding in Ger- to 2019. According to the analysis, TUD has filed more
many. In the current period, 2017-2019, researchers at than 680 patents within ten years - on average, a new
TU Dresden raised a total of 293 million euros in public patent almost every five days.
funding, which marks an increase of around 13 percent
compared to the previous review period.

In the special chapter “30 years of research,” the DFG dfg.de/sites/fundingatlas2021/
praises TU Dresden’s performance as a “true success hochschulansichten/
story.” Over the past 20 years, it has increased its ranking dresden_tu.html
by 19 places.

The university is particularly strong in engineering, where
it places third in national comparison. In the field of
computer science, systems engineering and electrical
engineering, TU Dresden holds the uncontested first
place with EUR 51.7 million of funding.

Right: Microelectronics research at TUD: selection of funding bodies
and cooperation partners

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