According to the “World Reputation Ranking 2011” in the “Times Higher Education (THE)” magazine, the TU München (TUM) is the most renowned technical university in Germany. It occupies 4th place among the technical universities in the European comparison.
In its first-time compiled ranking, the THE rates universities according to their international reputation in research and teaching. More than 13,000 experienced academics worldwide were polled about the most prestigious universities in their own fields. The ranking placed the TUM in the 61 to 70 group in an itemized list.
The top German university is the LMU 48th in the ranking; the TU München follows directly after it.
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Technische Universität München (TUM) has once again proven itself as one of the top universities worldwide. In the ”Academic Ranking of World Universities“ 2010 from Shanghai, TUM came in 56th place overall. This makes it the best technical university in Germany by far. Among all German universities, TUM’s achievement is almost equal to that of Ludwigs-Maximilian Universitaet (ranking 52nd) and Heidelberg University (ranking 63rd). Bonn University (93rd) and Göttingen University (93rd) are also in the top 100.
TUM’s Informatics Department is among the best: It is the only German university in the  category of computer science.
The Shanghai ranking mainly compares the number and the citation rate of published papers in the leading journals Nature and Science as well as the number of high awards (i.e. Nobel Prize, Fields Medal) won by members of the university.
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The TU München has been reviewed by the QS World University Ranking 2010, a british leading global career and education network, as the best technical university in Germany by far. The university occupies the 58th position in the ranking.

Five German universities managed to be among the 100 best universities worldwide. Besides the TUM the following German universities are also listed the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (51), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (66), the Freie Universität Berlin (70) and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (97). Europe-wide only four technical universities are to be found under the Top 100.

As the only German university the TUM ranks among the best 40 universities wordwide in subject-related rankings in both Natural Sciences and Engineering.

The QS World University Ranking assesses the academic standing, the mentoring relationship between instructors and students, citations per instructor, the standing for employers as well as the quota of international instructors and students. For this ranking the QS company uses statistics as well as surveys among academics and  personnel managers.
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In the World University Ranking of the Times Higher Education 2010, a british university magazine, the TUM was ranked by far as the top technical unversity in Germany. In the european ranking of technical universities the TUM came in 4th place.
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In a 2009 worldwide ranking by Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University (“Academic Ranking of World Universities”, ARWU), the Technische Universität München is ranked as well. It is the second best German university. In the category Computer Science, the Technische Universität München is the only Geman university among the top 100. It is being ranked 49th.

The Shanghai ranking mainly compares the number and the citation rate of published papers in the leading journals Nature and Science as well as the number of high awards (i.e. Nobel Prize, Fields Medal) won by members of the university.
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The Technische Universität München is ranked 55th by the Times Higher Education’s 2009 World University Ranking, which puts her first among German universities.
The Times ranked universities according to their ratio between researchers and published papers, the ratio between lecturers and students as well as their percentage of international students. One of the main criteria was the esteem in which the university was held by roughly 10 000 interviewed researchers and more than 3 000 interviewed employers.
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