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Technische Universität Dresden

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The Technische Universität Dresden is one of the top universities in Germany and Europe: strong in research and considered first-rate with respect to the range and the quality of the study programmes it offers, it is also closely interconnected with culture, business and society. As a modern comprehensive, multi-discipline university and with its 14 faculties it has a broad and diverse scientific spectrum that only few other universities in Germany are able to match. It is Saxony's largest university. The large campus family of the TU Dresden is comprised of 37,000 students and approximately 7,900 employees, about 4,330 of whom are budget-funded – among them 524 professors – and another roughly 3,440 who work as grant-supported employees.\\With its Institutional Strategy or Zukunftskonzept in German - "The Synergetic University", the Cluster of Excellence "cfaed – Centre for Advancing Electronics Dresden" and the two follow-up proposals, "Centre for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD)" and "Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB)", the TU Dresden on 15 June 2012 achieved the title of University of Excellence in the first phase of the Excellence Initiative launched by the German federal and state governments. This means that it is one of Germany's eleven universities of excellence.