Broy gained his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (Ph.D.) in 1980 at the chair of [[Friedrich L. Bauer]] on the subject of transformation of programs running in parallel ''(Transformation parallel ablaufender Programme)''.
In 1983, he founded the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the [[University of Passau]], which dean he was until 1986. In 1989, he went to the [[Technical University of Munich]] (TUM),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tuwien.ac.at/fileadmin/t/tuwien/docs/leitung/unirat/Broy_Manfred_CV_2012.pdf |title=CV Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Hans Bertold Broy |language=German |access-date=2013-05-12 May 2013 |website=Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) |year=2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011235034/http://www.tuwien.ac.at/fileadmin/t/tuwien/docs/leitung/unirat/Broy_Manfred_CV_2012.pdf |archive-date=2014-10-11 October 2014}}</ref> where in 1992, he became the founding dean of the informatics faculty, which until then was an institute within the faculty of mathematics and informatics. Since then he has been teaching at the Technical University of Munich.
In 2004, he was elected as a fellow of the [[Gesellschaft für Informatik]]<ref>[http://www.gi.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Wettbewerbe/Fellowship/broy-fellow2004.pdf GI-Fellow citation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213635/http://www.gi.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Wettbewerbe/Fellowship/broy-fellow2004.pdf |date=3 March 2016-03-03}}, retrieved 9 March 2012-03-09.</ref> and in 2007, he won the [[Konrad Zuse Medal]].<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.idw-online.de/pages/de/news221946|journal=[[Informationsdienst Wissenschaft]] |title=Manfred Broy aus München erhält Konrad-Zuse-Medaille - Höchste Informatik-Auszeichnung wird in Bremen verliehen |last=Winter |first=Cornelia |date=16 August 16, 2007 |language=German}}</ref> He is also editor of the [[International Journal of Software and Informatics]]. Broy has been a director of the [[International Summer School Marktoberdorf]].<ref name="broy82">{{cite book |title=Theoretical Foundations of Programming Methodology: Lecture Notes of an International Summer School, 1981 |volume=91 |series=[[NATO]] Advanced Study Institutes Series |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dXECMwAACAAJ |access-date=2 September 2015 |author=Marktoberdorf Summer School on Theoretical Foundations of Programming Methodology |editor-first=Manfred |editor-last=Broy |publisher=[[D. Reidel|Reidel]] |year=1982}}</ref>
