Facts and Figures
The KIT Annual Report is published once a year with exciting developments and events, awards and comprehensive facts and figures: Annual reports of KIT and the official University of Karlsruhe
General overview
General overview of data and facts at KIT
Studying and Teaching
- 11 KIT departments
- 120 institutes
- Over 100 degree programs
- Over 20,000 students (in German only)
- Research-oriented teaching (in German only) through initial involvement of students in research practice
- International range of courses, e.g. in 11 English-language Master's degree programs
- Member of the group of leading technical universities in Germany (TU9) and the Association of European Universities of Technology (CLUSTER)
- Contractually fixed connections to more than 270 partner universities worldwide
- Double degrees in natural sciences, engineering and economics, especially with partners in France
- KIT has been system-accredited since May 2014 and is allowed to assess and accredit all degree programs itself
- International alumni network
Interdisciplinary research focuses in interdisciplinary KIT Centers
- Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics
- Energy
- Health Technologies
- Information - Systems - Technologies
- Climate and Environment
- Materials in Technical and Life Sciences
- Mathematics in Sciences, Engineering, and Economics
- Humans and Technology
- Mobility Systems
Program-oriented research priorities in the Helmholtz Association(Helmholtz Program)
- Energy
- Earth and Environment
- Information
- Matter
DFG - Collaborative Research Centers
Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) are institutions established at universities for a long-term period and enable researchers to pursue an outstanding research programme, crossing the boundaries of disciplines, institutes, departments and faculties.
Research groups at KIT
Embedded in the research work of KIT are a number of cross-location and cross-disciplinary cooperations of scientists on current issues.
Excellence Strategy
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has successfully asserted itself in the "Universities of Excellence" funding line in the Excellence Strategy of the Federation and the Federal states. The concept "The Research University in the Helmholtz Association | Living the Change" will now receive funding, with a total of 105 million euros applied for over the next seven years.
