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Ranking Results
The Department of Mechanical Engineer-
ing is one of the most successful faculties
of its kind worldwide and has occupied
top places in the main research rankings
for the past several years. The basis of
this success is due to both very good
teaching conditions and an excellent
research record based on a balanced mix
of publicly- and industry-funded projects
and demonstrated by quality publications.
THE World University Ranking
The Times Higher Education Ranking
evaluates universities in their specialist
groups according to their teaching and
research performance, based primarily on
citations, teaching indicators and research
volume. According to this ranking, TUM’s
engineering occupies the top place among
German universities.
Placement of Engineering Sciences
Worldwide:
TUM Engineering Sciences: 27 (2015-16)
Previous years: 28 (2014-15), 26 (2013-
14), >50 (2012-13), 43 (2011-12), >50
(2010/11)
Taiwan Ranking
The National Taiwan University Ranking is
based exclusively on the number of publi-
cations, citations and h-indexes, primarily
from the past decade. It therefore reacts
very slowly to the process of change.
Evaluation is subject specific meaning
parts of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering are not assessed (e.g. pro-
cess technology and materials science).
The TUM Department of Mechanical
Engineering demonstrates particularly
strong performance with regard to highly
cited publications (‘HiCi’ rank 16).
Placement of Mechanical Engineering
Worldwide:
TUM Mechanical Engineering: 49 (2016)
Previous years: 55 (2015), 68 (2014), 64
(2013), 78 (2012), 118 (2011)
CHE
The CHE – Center for Higher Education
provides a study-oriented ranking for the
ZEIT Study Guide. Similar to U-Multirank,
several indicators are allocated to cate-
gories ‘top performing group’, ‘medium
performing group’ and ‘low performing
group’. Most interesting is a survey
amongst students, conducted every third
year. The survey amongst Bachelor stu-
dents 2016 places the TUM Department of
Mechanical Engineering in the top group
for 7 out of 13 indicators.
Ranking Results
QS World University Ranking
by Subject
The QS World University Ranking by
Subject evaluates universities according
to academic reputation, employer reputa-
tion, number of citations per publication
and h-index. In the past years our Depart-
ment of Mechanical Engineering has been
placed among the top group in Europe.
Placement of Mechanical Engineering
Worldwide:
TUM Mechanical Engineering: 27 (2016)
Previous years: 19 (2015), 30 (2014),
23 (2013), 33 (2012), 36 (2011)
QS World University Ranking (Mechanical Engineering, 2016. Academic Reputation,
employer reputation, citations per publication and h-index
Rank 20
Rank 50
Rank 1
2011
36
2012
33
2013
23
2014
30
2015
19
2016
27
Top 50 Worldwide in Mechanical Engineering