title: TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences
text: # TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences
  
  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.
  
  ## Research units
  
  The Department consists of numerous research units, some of which are shared with other departments:
  
  * Applied Software Engineering (with the Department of Informatics)
  * Applied Sport Sciences
  * Biomechanics in Sports
  * Chronobiology & Health
  * 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 2021 Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments, the TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences is ranked 31st in the world and 2nd in Germany (after the German Sport University Cologne).
  
  