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CHE University Ranking

Political Science / Social Sciences, Department

TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology

Technische Universität München

TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology
Richard-Wagner-Straße 1
D-80333 München
https://www.tum.de
TU München
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

660

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

380

Teaching in core subjects

  • Germany: 5.6%
  • Comparison of political systems: 11.1%
  • EU: 11.1%
  • International relations: 11.1%
  • Theory/intellectual history: 16.7%
  • Methods/statistics: 11.1%
  • Other fields/didactics: 33.3%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

13/16 points

Research

Third party funds per academic

52,400 €

Doctorates per professor

1.8

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
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Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Research orientation

Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation

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Practical orientation in teaching
Support for stays abroad
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Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

24

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Orientation of the course content to the interfaces between politics, society, business and technical innovations; Integration of innovative teaching and examination formats (learning portfolio, simulation games, interdisciplinary teaching collaborations, etc.); Use of Moodle to support courses as well as for blended learning opportunities with online moderated groups; Video recordings; Computer-aided teaching or small group work in state-of-the-art rooms; Mobile furniture for learning settings that can be shaped spontaneously and individually

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Orientation of the course content to the interfaces between politics, society, business and technical innovations; Integration of innovative teaching and examination formats (learning portfolio, simulation games, interdisciplinary teaching collaborations, etc.); Use of Moodle to support courses as well as for blended learning opportunities with online moderated groups; Video recordings; Computer-aided teaching or small group work in state-of-the-art rooms; Mobile furniture for learning settings that can be shaped spontaneously and individually

Special features regarding the international orientation

Collaborations with renowned universities worldwide or Student & Staff Exchange (academic and non-academic) through TUM's own exchange programme, faculty-owned Erasmus & interdepartmental exchange partnerships; More than half of the newly appointed professors have extensive experience abroad; All are extremely well-connected in the international research community; Mobility fund for doctoral students; Lecture series with international lecturers; Internship exchange with international partners/companies.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien; Tsinghua University, Peking, China; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Sciences Po Paris, Reims, Frankreich; Université de Genève, Schweiz; Universitetet i Oslo, Norwegen; Universiteit Maastricht, Niederlande; Universiteit van Amsterdam, Niederlande; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Special features regarding the equipment

Innovative equipment in teaching rooms with portable, state-of-the-art technology and mobile furniture that can be adapted to different teaching and learning situations; Flexible group work rooms and independent learning workstations; Use of digital learning platforms (e.g. Moodle); Access to TOP databases: Web of Science including Social Science Citation Index AND Scopus, Political Science Complete, WiSo, Nexis, Factiva, OLC International Relations and Regional Studies, OLC Political Science and Peace Research, etc.; Provision of co-working spaces in the TUM Think Tank (latest technical equipment).

Special features regarding research activities

Research projects, interfaces between politics, society, business and technology, in particular in the following areas: European and Global Governance, International Political Economy, International Relations, Political Data Science, Political Philosophy and Theory, Computational Social Science and Big Data, Global Security and Technology, Politics of Finance, Environmental and Climate Policy, Global Health, Policy Analysis; Detailed information on the research projects and focal points of the individual professorships can be found on their respective websites.

Other special features

Implementation of the TUM Diversity Code of Conduct at the departmental level; Enforcement of the BayGIG, the Bavarian law on gender equality through monitoring of gender & diversity equity in personnel development and recruitment and application processes; Strengthening the area of gender in research and teaching ; Supporting the combination of family & work, e.g. through part-time studies and appropriate working time models; Strengthening teaching and research activities in the field of global health (Professorship in Global Health)

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Last Update 2024: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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