According to the Law on Higher Education in Bavaria, the University Council provides the initiatives for developing the profile of the university and for its primary teaching and research activities as well as for the further development of the curriculum.
The honorary members of the University Council are three outstanding personalities from the business sector as well as two scientists not employed by the university. The term of office for the members of the University Council is four years.
Tasks of the Senate comprise according to art. 25 sect. 1 subsect. 1 of the Bavarian University Law (BayHSchG) basically technical issues. It
Our University Senate consists (as an exception from art. 25 BayHSchG) of:
as well as the university management members as permanent guests in advisory capacity.
The ultimate decision-making board of the students is the students parliament.
It consists of the delegates of the faculty student councils (Fachschaft) and fifteen more members, who are elected in direct ballot within the scope of the General University Elections according to the University Elections Regulations. Every faculty student council can delegate a student of its faculty as an ambassador.
The Students Parliament elects among itself the members of the Allgemeinen Studierenden Ausschusses (AStA), or General Students Committee. AStA is in charge of the day-to-day dealings of the students parliament, and functions as the students' presentation. It executes the decisions of the students parliament.
