Student bodies
The term "student bodies of a department or school" can be used to describe all students of a subject area (for example, all mechanical engineering students). Fortunately, within each student body there is a handful of committed people who are willing to represent this one towards the department and make their fellow students' studies as easy as possible.
The Departmental Student Council is basically your first contact point if problems arise concerning study matters.
You help determine the "official" members of your Departmental Student Council: at the university elections, among other things, it is determined who represents you in the TUM Student Council and who is an elected member of the Departmental Student Council. As a rule, however, all you have to do for participation is to ask! For many parts of the student body work, it doesn't matter if you are elected.
A special feature of the student bodies of the Weihenstephan Campus is their merger into a campus-wide Student Representation, the Student Council Weihenstephan (SCW).
Student bodies of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) and the TUM School of Natural Sciences (NAT)
Concerning the CIT, the EI (mostly downtown) and MPIC (Garching) form together the service area; for the NAT, the service area is represented entirely by MPIC.
Student bodies of the TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED)
The School ED has one student body at the university policy level. In addition, there are separate service areas and associations for the various departments
Student bodies of the TUM School of Life Sciences (LS)
The TUM School of Life Sciences contains six separate student bodies. These additionally connect at the Student Council Weihenstephan.