 According to the funding report of the German Research Foundation from 2018, which breaks down the grants for the period 2014 to 2016, TU Munich ranks 3rd in life sciences, 13th in natural sciences and 18th in engineering, normalized to the size of the university.The Technical University of Munich took 3rd place absolute in computer science and 3rd place absolute in electrical engineering.The funds of the German Universities Excellence Initiative are included.