Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) is a public technical university in Darmstadt, Germany, founded in 1877 and since 2004 Germany's first fully autonomous university. A member of the TU9 alliance, it has about 24,400 students in 114 degree programmes and around 5,000 staff, including 350 professors, with a total budget of about 547 million euros.