TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences

TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences

Type	Public
Established	2002
Dean	Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz
Academic staff	13 professors 175 staff[1]
Students	2,228 (2020)[2]
Location	Munich , Bavaria , Germany
Affiliations	TUM
Website	sg.tum.de

The TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences (TUM SG) (German: Fakultät für Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaften) is a department of the Technical University of Munich, located at the Zentrale Hochschulsportanlage in the Olympiapark. Its focuses on sports science and health science.

History[]

The Department was established in 2002.^[1]

Research units[]

The Department consists of numerous research units, some of which are shared with other departments:^[1]

• Applied Software Engineering (with the Department of Informatics)
• Applied Sport Sciences
• Biomechanics in Sports
• Conservative and Rehabilitative Orthopedics
• Didactics in Sport and Health
• Educational Science in Sport and Health
• Epidemiology
• Exercisebiology
• Exercise, nutrition and health
• General Practice (with the School of Medicine)
• Health Economics
• Human Movement Science
• Media and Communications
• Neuromuscular Diagnostics
• Neuropathology (with the School of Medicine)
• Performance Analysis and Sports Informatics
• Preventive Pediatrics
• Preventive and Rehabilitative Sports Medicine (with the School of Medicine)
• Psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy (with the School of Medicine)
• Social Pediatrics (with the School of Medicine)
• Sociology of Diversity
• Sport and Health Management
• Sport Equipment and Sport Materials (with the Department of Mechanical Engineering)
• Sport Psychology
• Sports Orthopedics (with the School of Medicine)

Rankings[]

In the Shanghai Ranking's 2020 Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments, the TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences is ranked 34th in the world and 2nd in Germany (after the German Sport University Cologne).^[3]

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