Karlsruher Institut für Technologie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Motto | KIT – Die Forschungsuniversität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Motto in English | KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Established | Fridericiana Polytechnic: October 7, 1825 TU Karlsruhe: 1865 KIT: 1 October 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Budget | EUR 1.163 billion (2023)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairperson | Michael Kaschke[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| President | Jan S. Hesthaven[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Academic staff | 414 professors 5,409 (other academic staff) (2023)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Administrative staff | 4,211 (2023)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Students | 22,816 (2023)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 12,434 (2023)[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 8,042 (2023)[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 950 (2023)[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | , , Germany 49°00′34″N 8°24′42″E / 49.00944°N 8.41167°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Campus | Urban/Suburban | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | kit.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; German: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is both a German public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association.[5]
KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (Universität Karlsruhe), founded in 1825 as a public research university and also known as the "Fridericiana", merged with the Karlsruhe Research Center (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe), which had originally been established in 1956 as a national nuclear research center (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, or KfK).[6] KIT is thus the first and only institution in Germany to overcome the division of the German scientific and research landscape into academic and non-academic institutions in the form of a merger of two different types of institutions.[7]
KIT is a member of the TU9, an incorporated society of the largest and most notable German institutes of technology.[8] As part of the German Universities Excellence Initiative KIT was one of three universities which were awarded excellence status in 2006.[9] In the following "German Excellence Strategy" KIT was awarded as one of eleven "Excellence Universities" in 2019.[10]
In the university part of today's KIT, science-based mechanical engineering was founded in the mid-19th century under the direction of Ferdinand Redtenbacher, which influenced the foundation of other technical universities, such as ETH Zurich in 1855.[11] It established the first German faculty for computer science in 1972.[12][13][14] On 2 August 1984, the university received the first-ever German e-mail.[15]
Professors and former students have won six Nobel Prizes and ten Leibniz Prizes, the most prestigious as well as the best-funded prize in Europe. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is well known for many inventors and entrepreneurs who studied or taught there, including Heinrich Hertz, Karl Friedrich Benz and the founders of SAP SE.[16]
- ^ a b c d "Data and Facts". Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. March 2024. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
- ^ "KIT – KIT – Organization – Supervisory Board". Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ "KIT – KIT – Organization – Executive Board". 1 October 2024. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ a b c "Studierendenstatistik" (PDF). Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2024.
- ^ "Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) – Serviceportal Baden-Württemberg".
- ^ Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany): "Eckpunktepapier zur Gründung des Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2006. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ "KIT 2.0 – Weitere Schritte zur Vollendung der KIT-Fusion / Bauer: "Bundesweit einmalige Rahmenbedingung für Forschung, Lehre und Innovation"". 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Karlsruher Institut für Technologie". Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Erste Runde in der Exzellenzinitiative entschieden". Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ "Entscheidungen in der Exzellenzstrategie: Exzellenzkommission wählt zehn Exzellenzuniversitäten und einen Exzellenzverbund aus". Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Ferdinand Redtenbacher: Der Begründer des wissenschaftlichen Maschinenbaus". Retrieved 26 February 2020.
- ^ "QS Graduate Employability Ranking". Retrieved 26 February 2020.
- ^ "U-Multirank 2019". Retrieved 14 March 2019.
- ^ "Jubiläumsfeier – 40 Jahre Fakultät für Informatik". 26 February 2020.
- ^ "Kurze Geschichte der ersten deutschen Internet E-Mail". Retrieved 26 February 2020.
- ^ "KIT's profile at Times Higher Education Ranking". Retrieved 13 November 2016.