Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm

Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm (the Ohm) is a public university of applied sciences. With around 13,000 students, it is one of the largest universities of applied sciences in Germany. The Ohm has 13 Faculties with a majority of them in the STEM field, and one business school. It offers 27 bachelor’s and 30 master’s degree programmes, as well as 14 certificate programs. From 2024 it is granted the right to confer doctoral degrees in three fields, economics, computer science and materials & production engineering.

The Ohm is an important contributor to the technological and economic strength of the Metropolitan Region Nuremberg through training, research and transfer. Application-driven education and research take place in cooperation with regional, national and international partners from business, science, culture and politics. Innovative teaching and learning methods and concepts are developed, implemented and researched. The Ohm’s applied research is driven by seven overarching research themes: energy & resources; materials & production engineering; health; digitalisation & artificial intelligence; sustainability; social & economic transformation; mobility, transport, logistics. Inter- and multidisciplinary research and technological development activities are mainly carried out in 9 institutes, 8 competence centres, 2 Fraunhofer research groups and 3 cooperative research platforms, supported by about 150 well-equipped laboratories in the Ohm’s Faculties.