Timetable
| 1829 | Foundation as a Vocational School |
| 1840 | Polytechnical School |
| 1876 | Polytechnic |
| 1890 | College of Technology (TH) |
| 1900 | Right to award doctorates in Engineering and Natural Sciences |
| 1905 | First female student |
| 1944 | Almost all university buildings destroyed |
| 1946 | Teaching staff and students rebuild the university, university re-opens |
| 1953 | Right to award doctorates in the Humanities |
| 1957 | Building of the Vaihingen Campus begins |
| 1967 | Universität Stuttgart |
| 1969 | Basic Constitution |
| 1974 | 10.000 students |
| 1979 | Right to award doctorates in Economics and the Social Sciences |
| 1988 | 20.000 students |
| 2000 | University Council |
| 2002 | Neustrukturierung der Fakultäten von 14 auf 10 |
| 2003/04 | Launch of Bachelor of Arts in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 2004 | 175th anniversary |
| 2007 | Success in the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal Government and the state governments |
| 2008 | Reorganisation of the faculties. Introduction of Bachelor and Master courses in Engeering and the NAtural Sciences |