Technical Universiy of Munich (TUM) is one of Europe's leading research universities, with around 500 professors, 10,000 academic and nonacademic staff, and over 40,000 students. TUM’s 15 academic departments provide an excellent environment for research and education. Its focus areas are the engineering sciences, natural sciences, life sciences and medicine, reinforced by schools of management and education. TUM acts as an entrepreneurial university that promotes talents and creates value for society. In that it profits from having strong partners in science and industry. It is represented worldwide with a campus in Singapore as well as offices in Beijing, Brussels, Cairo, Mumbai, and São Paulo. 13 Nobel Prize winners and inventors such as Rudolf Diesel and Carl von Linde have done research at TUM. In 2006, 2012 and 2019 it won recognition as a German "Excellence University." In international rankings, it regularly places among the best universities in Germany.