[4] TH Wildau was founded as a technical university of applied sciences in 1991, but its connection to engineering education dates back further to the late 1940s.

Today it sits on a modern and compact campus, with direct S-Bahn access to Germany's capital city, Berlin.

In mid-September 1949 the 'Vocational School of Locomotive and Wagon Construction' was founded and specialist engineering education in Wildau officially began.

By car you can reach the university via the Bundesautobahn 10 (Berliner Ring) via the exit Königs Wusterhausen as well as via Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) 179.

TH Wildau is also part of one of Brandenburg's fastest growing regional growth centres ('regionale Wachstumskerne'), dubbed the Schönefeld Cross ('Schönefelder Kreuz').

[7] The university also borders (to the North) the town of Zeuthen, which is home to the second campus of the German Electron Synchrotron ('DESY'), part of the Institute of High Energy Physics.

In comparison to other small universities of applied sciences, it has done exceptionally well in obtaining third-party research funding.

[15] TH Wildau currently awards double degrees with partner institutions from China, France, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Spain.

It has also established a trilateral Joint Degree program in Logistics and Supply Chain Management together with Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain and Riga Technical University in Latvia.