Master in Management & Technology

TUM School of Management placed 54th worldwide in the Financial Times Masters in Management 2025, with a weighted three-year salary of approximately US $117,000 and an 84% employment rate at three months.⁵ The programme carrying that ranking is the Master in Management & Technology (MMT) — a two-year degree that deliberately combines a management core with a specialisation in an engineering or natural-science discipline, producing graduates who can operate fluently across both domains.

Overview

TUM School of Management is the business faculty of the Technical University of Munich, one of Germany’s leading research universities and a member of the German Excellence Initiative.³ The MMT was established in 2002 as an explicit response to demand from technology-intensive industries for managers who hold substantive technical depth alongside strategic and commercial skills.¹

The school holds AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA triple-crown accreditation — a standard met by fewer than 1% of business schools worldwide.³ TUM is a public university, which has a direct effect on fees: EU/EEA students pay only the standard semester contribution of approximately €97 per semester, with no additional tuition charge.⁴ The cohort is roughly 46% international, reflecting the programme’s global positioning despite its public-university fee structure.¹

Curriculum & Structure

The MMT is structured around two parallel tracks pursued simultaneously over two years. The management track covers strategy, finance, marketing, innovation, and entrepreneurship — the standard building blocks of a business-school education. The technology track requires students to choose one specialisation from TUM’s engineering or natural-science departments: options include Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Sustainable Energies, Mechanical Engineering, Informatics, Electrical & Information Technology, and Chemistry.¹

The programme can be completed entirely in English: all management specialisations are fully English-taught, and several technology specialisations — including Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Sustainable Energies — are 100% English as well. Students choosing Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Informatics, or Electrical & Information Technology will encounter bilingual (German and English) coursework; applicants who wish to study fully in English should factor their specialisation preference into the application.¹

Application & Deadlines

TUM admits to the MMT for both winter and summer semesters, making it one of the few top-ranked MiM programmes with two annual entry points.² TUM does not announce dates cycle by cycle: it publishes a standing annual rule — *“the application period for the winter semester runs from April 1st until May 31st and for the summer semester from November 1st until November 30th every year.”*² So the 2027/28 winter window is 1 April–31 May 2027 by the school’s own published schedule, and the summer-semester option applies 1–30 November. What does move is the admissions test, which is scheduled per cycle: TUM held it on 6 July 2026 for the 2026/27 winter intake, with a second sitting on 3 September 2026.²

The GMAT is not universally optional, and the exception is large: applicants who obtained their bachelor’s in China, Egypt, India, Pakistan or Bangladesh must submit a GMAT (classic or Focus) at the 65th percentile or above, and TUM states that this **“requirement cannot be waived.”**⁹ ¹⁰ For every other origin the test is optional but point-earning. TUM defers the document checklist itself to TUMonline rather than publishing it on the programme pages, so confirm the upload list there — what the school does publish, and what actually decides the outcome, is the scoring.

TUM publishes the score, so you can compute your own before applying

The MMT is admitted through a two-stage Eignungsverfahren, and TUM’s assessment-procedure document sets out every number in it.¹⁰ Before scoring begins there are hard gates: a bachelor’s of at least 140 ECTS at the time of application, containing at least 25 ECTS in business, 10 ECTS in economics and 15 ECTS in engineering or a natural science — and TUM warns that no conditional admission is ever granted to an applicant who misses them.

Stage 1 then scores out of 60 — 40 for the core-module blocks, 10 for the grade and 10 for an optional GMAT:

The engineering prerequisite is a gate that scores nothing. Grades inside the core-module groups are irrelevant — only whether the credits were passed and appear on the transcript at the time of applying.

The thresholds are published, which is rarer than the scheme itself: 34 points or fewer is a rejection, 45 or more is a direct admission, and 35–44 goes to stage 2.¹⁰ Stage 2 is the written admission test — about 40 to 50 questions worth 40 points, in four equally weighted quarters: maths and statistics, business administration and accounting, micro and macroeconomics, and a short written text on an issue in economics and technology. No calculators, pens, paper or headphones are permitted. In stage 2 the GMAT points are dropped, and the stage-1 score minus GMAT plus the test score must reach 70 to admit.

Read as strategy, that says something specific: the GMAT’s real value at TUM is not the 10 points themselves but the chance they buy of clearing 45 outright and never sitting the test — while the operations-research block and your bachelor’s grade are what put you within range of the line at all.

Tuition & Funding

As a public institution, TUM charges non-EU/EEA students €4,000 per semester in tuition for the MMT, plus the €97 semester fee — roughly €16,400 across the four-semester programme.¹ ⁷ That is the programme-specific figure and worth confirming for your own: TUM’s central page says master’s tuition for non-EU/EEA students is “usually 4,000 or 6,000 euros per semester” depending on the degree, and the MMT sits in the lower band.⁴ TUM also frames the exemption around where your bachelor’s is from rather than your passport alone — “If you have a Bachelor’s degree from a German university, you are generally not required to pay tuition fees for a Master’s degree” — so an international applicant who did their undergraduate degree in Germany should check their own case rather than assume the €4,000 applies.¹

EU/EEA students pay only the semester fee of €97.00, which is the rate for the Munich, Garching and Weihenstephan campuses (Straubing is €82.00) — €388 across the degree, making the MMT one of the lowest-cost routes into the FT MiM top 60 for European applicants.⁷ Note what that fee is not: unlike the contributions at Cologne and Goethe Frankfurt, which bundle the €226.80 Deutschland-Semesterticket, Bavaria runs no compulsory semester ticket — TUM’s page directs students to purchase the discounted Deutschlandticket separately, and the standard ticket has cost €63 a month since 1 January 2026.⁷ ⁸ Budget it as a living cost, not a fee. Munich is one of Germany’s more expensive cities for living costs, so accommodation and living expenses are the primary financial consideration for most students. TUM offers merit-based scholarships and the Deutschlandstipendium for eligible students; external funding through DAAD is available to international applicants.⁴

Career Outcomes

The Financial Times 2025 ranking reports a weighted three-year salary of approximately US $117,000 and an 84% employment rate at three months for MMT graduates — both figures are FT’s own calculations from graduate survey data.⁵ Separately, TUM’s own employment report puts the average starting salary at approximately €65,000 for the Class of 2025 — a school-reported figure that reflects first-role compensation rather than the FT’s weighted multi-year measure.¹

Graduates place strongly into technology, automotive, consulting, and chemicals — sectors concentrated in Munich and its surrounding region, which is home to BMW, MAN, Siemens, and Linde, among others.¹ The management-plus-technology profile also opens roles that pure management degrees cannot easily access: product management, technology strategy, and technical consulting positions where deep engineering literacy is a differentiator.

Campus & Reputation

TUM’s main campus is in central Munich, with additional facilities in Garching (engineering and sciences) and Straubing. The proximity of the engineering and management faculties is not merely geographic: the MMT’s cross-faculty structure means students take courses alongside TUM’s engineering students, which reinforces the programme’s distinctive positioning.³ QS ranks TUM School of Management 28th in the QS Business Masters Rankings (Management) 2026.⁶

For the broader question of whether a MiM makes financial sense, see Is a MiM worth it in 2026? and our MiM vs MBA comparison.