Around 110 senior lecturers/professors and 1,410 members of staff (802 scientists, including externally funded researchers) work at the TUHH.

In the year 2000, the TUHH defined the following strategic topics of research activities: Research is divided into six interdisciplinary research departments: Teaching is organized in eight schools of study: The Northern Institute of Technology (NIT) Management is a private educational institute located on the campus of the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in Hamburg, Germany.

Students will graduate from the NIT with an MBA or Master of Technology Management degree after completion of the courses.

Since 1992 the TuTech has been responsible for technology transfer and advice, for trade fairs and further training, as well as congresses and the initiation of projects.

Examples are the "Starterzentrum", the local initiation "hep", the "Gründerrat" of the TUHH as well as a course of studies for carriermanagement.

[5] In contrast, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2024 situates the institution between 501 and 600 globally, and similarly in the 42-45 range nationally.