The Technische Universität Dresden dates back to the Technische Bildungsanstalt Dresden, founded in 1828, and thus ranks among the oldest technical-academic educational establishments in Germany. The TU Dresden has about 37,000 students and almost 4,200 perma- nent employees (excluding the Faculty of Medicine), including 419 professors, making it one of the largest universities in Germany today. Having been committed to sciences and engineering before the reunification of Germany, TU Dresden is now a multidisciplinary university, offering humanities and social sciences as well as medicine. There are very few universities in Germany that can match this broad scientific spectrum. The TU Dresden is one of only eleven German universities distinguished as an “Excellence University”.