Opinion about TU Dresden (Germany)

[maxpayne]

Hi,

I have applied to TU Dresden's Distributed Systems Engineering program (http://dse.inf.tu-dresden.de/) primarily because a) I've always wanted to study in Europe I am particularly interested in this field

However there is little to no information about TU Dresden on the internet ( I am not looking for tourist information about the city..Dresden it turns out is quite tourist friendly). I am trying to gather first hand information from students (international) who have studied there or have applied there. Is there any one here who is or knows someone from TU Dresden ( any department really)

thanks!

Max

[Germany2012]

For those still interested, I can only say that national employers rank the national TU Dresden informatics graduates the 8th best in the country.

Tendentially this east German magic is the most dynamic university meaning it improves constinously in rankings, it get's more known.

Recently it was awarded as one of 11 German so called universities of excellence, all kinds of national media even call it 11 elite universities,

which also means signigicant extra funding and even important reputation. The university aims to enter the Top 100 in the Times Highes Higher

Education Ranking which is very good for a German university. Such nobel prize and similar things rankings are not very applicable for German

universities and I think also that there is a slight underestimation of east-German universities in such international rankings.

The oldest university of Europe (Prague in my way of counting years) does not enter the Top 300 there. Still I think alone to be this legendary university in beautiful Prague should almost

be enough for Top 200. Many interesting smart people, maybe not elite but still smart. There is not everything logical in details for universities not in the Top 100,

in some cases the order is definitively wrong or at least outdated, I don't want to say explicit names, but some German universties are also slightly overrated because

they had nobel prizes many, many decades ago. Dresden did not get a nobel prize for the TV invention by Manfred von Ardenne in Berlin but still this is tradition, if this counts.

Elsewhere he also invented the Russian nuclear bomb together with others and hydrogen bomb plus 600 patents, alone such single example makes many places for a non-Harvard or CalTech.

TU Dresden is in the sure Top 10, mostly Top 5 in German engineering, sometimes number 1, or often, because many things you won't find elsewhere exactly so, because it appplies more patents than every other German university and it has a singular absolute number of regional non-university semipublic true elite research partners (associations as Helmholtz, Max Planck society, Fraunhofer, Leibniz society) which settle freely in Germany and have decided for Dresden but do not always publish with that name TU Dresden in their own legal form cooperating with many universities . Universities are primarly for teaching, not for research only.

The city hosts the biggest cluster of micro-electronics in Europe. Thus it has a high percentage of citizens employed in tech and hightech sectors.

Semicon Europe also takes place there, for reason they moved from even Stuttgart to Dresden. The tourist and culture feeling matters if you wanna attract the best.

When US-Americans who have seen everything, really all of them, say that the city is overwhelming, then they might overstate, but at least they all say so, first mission fulfilled.

Edited July 7, 2012 by Germany2012