City of Dresden is having privilege to bear The Technical University of Dresden. It is one of the largest institute of higher education in the city. The largest University in Saxony and one of the finest in Germany with number of students being 37,134 in the year 2013. It is said to be one of the best University of engineering and technology in the country. It's is presently used name Technische Universitat Dresden is being there since 1961. But it is having its routes deeper in history of education about nearly 200 years t0 1828. Being the oldest college of technology, now it provides entire curriculum to make it able to entitled as institute of higher education. The institute is also a reputed member of TU9, a consortium of the nine leading German Institutes of Technology. It had been awarded as "University of Excellence" provided by its success in excellence initiative in 2012. The number of international students is being 3,442 at the TU Dresden. They are from different parts of the world like Europe, Asia and America. The countries from which the largest group of students belongs to are China, Poland, Vietnam, Bulgaria and Russia. The university is remarkably popular in Central and East European countries like the neighboring Czech Republic and Ukraine. Due to Erasmus programme and partnership with USA universities, there are many English, French and Spanish speaking students. It is the best German university because the language spoken during lessons is German.