page_title: Munich
section_title: Colleges and universities
hierarchical_section_title: Munich / Education / Colleges and universities
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, Maxvorstadt, München
context_page_description: Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, the second most populous German state. With a population of around 1.5 million, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people.
  Straddling the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps, it is the seat of the Bavarian administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the most densely populated municipality in Germany. Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialect area, after the Austrian capital of Vienna.
  The city was first mentioned in 1158. Catholic Munich strongly resisted the Reformation and was a political point of divergence during the resulting Thirty Years' War, but remained physically untouched despite an occupation by the Protestant Swedes. Once Bavaria was established as a sovereign kingdom in 1806, Munich became a major European centre of arts, architecture, culture and science.
context_section_description: Munich is a leading location for science and research with a long list of Nobel Prize laureates from Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1901 to Theodor Hänsch in 2005. Munich has become a spiritual centre already since the times of Emperor Louis IV when philosophers like Michael of Cesena, Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham were protected at the emperor's court. The Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and the Technische Universität München (TU or TUM), were two of the first three German universities to be awarded the title elite university by a selection committee composed of academics and members of the Ministries of Education and Research of the Federation and the German states (Länder). Only the two Munich universities and the Technical University of Karlsruhe (now part of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have held this honour, and the implied greater chances of attracting research funds, since the first evaluation round in 2006.
  Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), founded in 1472 in Ingolstadt, moved to Munich in 1826
  Technical University of Munich (TUM), founded in 1868
  Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, founded in 1808
  Bundeswehr University Munich, founded in 1973 (located in Neubiberg)
  Deutsche Journalistenschule, founded in 1959
  Bayerische Akademie für Außenwirtschaft, founded in 1989
  Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, founded in 1830
  International Max Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, founded in 2005
  International School of Management, founded in 1980
  Katholische Stiftungsfachhochschule München, founded in 1971
  Munich Business School (MBS), founded in 1991
  Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), founded in 2003
  Munich School of Philosophy, founded in 1925 in Pullach, moved to Munich in 1971
  Munich School of Political Science, founded in 1950
  Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM), founded in 1971
  New European College, founded in 2014
  Ukrainian Free University, founded in 1921 (from 1945 – in Munich)
  University of Television and Film Munich (Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film), founded in 1966
caption: Main building of the LMU
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