At the TU Dortmund there are more than 3300 foreign students from over 100 countries. Here the international character of the university is a huge priority. No matter whether you spend your visit abroad at the TU Dortmund or whether you want to study some time abroad as a Dortmund student, the International Office is the right contact point.
Above that employees take care of the international students on the Dortmund campus. Special effort is put in the contact with North America: with Con Ruhr the three Ruhr universities have a liaison office in New York since 2004. But the single faculties also have their own partnerships and programs and/or are a member of an international university network.
To investigate nature, to educate people, to accept technical challenges and to co-design the resulting cultural and social changes—these are the key tasks of Technische Universität Dortmund.
From the beginning Technische Universität Dortmund has been dedicated to interdisciplinary cooperation between natural/technical sciences and social/cultural sciences and their specialties with regard to research and teaching. The potentials of these specifics are continually to be used to mutually increase orientation competence, cultural competence, innovation power, critical faculties and technological knowledge and therefore ensure an even higher study quality.
Technische Universität Dortmund does not solely focus on the strengths of its single disciplines but also on the interdisciplinary network among its disciplines. That implies more profile-building features with regard to teaching offers and interdisciplinary research. The interdisciplinary cooperation in the university’s three areas—engineering and computer science, natural sciences and social and cultural sciences—opens up innovative synergy potential in research and cutting-edge education.
Technische Universität Dortmund regards the preservation and improvement of its research achievements as the essential basis for its overall development. Basic research and applied research are in a balanced proportion to each other.