Study with the Best - KIT Rankings Worldwide

As the Graduate School of the KIT, Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics offers teaching at the highest academic level. The exceptional quality of both research and teaching at KIT is repeatedly proved by different international rankings.

Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2024

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Source: THE World University Rankings 2024 by subject: Engineering

  • #64 in the world for Engineering
  • #3 in Germany for Engineering

 

Times Higher Education (THE) rankings are based on citations, industry outcome, international outlook, research, & teaching, with the exact weighting and methodology recalibrated to suit the individual fields. To find out more, please visit the Times Higher Education website.

QS World University Ranking 2023

 

  • #2 in Germany
  • #16 in Europe
  • #50 Worldwide
     

The QS World University Ranking is based on the characteristics of universities. The main categories are the size, age, status (public, private, etc.), research and its intensity, and focus (categorization of faculty areas and programs) of the universities. These five main topics are then broken down into smaller subtopics in order to rank each university.

To find out further information about the 2023 ranking, please visit

the KIT website.

educations.com Ranking 2023

 

Source: educations.com Rankings, 2023

  • Germany: #3 country to study abroad in Europe
  • Germany: #2 best study abroad country  in Europe to access higher quality teaching
  • Germany: #5 best study abroad country in the world to access higher quality teaching
  • Germany: #1 country to study abroad in the world
     

The educations.com ranking comes from their survey of over 30,000 international students based on 7 factors. 

To find out further information about the 2023 ranking, please visit

the educations.com website

Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2023

 

Source: Times Higher Education World University Ranking, 2023

  • #4 in Germany for Engineering
  • #64 in the world for Engineering & Technology

Times Higher Education ranking is based on the criteria of the universities international community, this includes staff, students, co-authors and even the universities international reputation. KIT is one of the institutions of research and higher education in engineering in Europe. In THE rankings includes Young University Rankings. This includes the world's best universities that are 50 years old or under.

QS World University Ranking 2022

 

Source:

QS World University Rankings, 2022

  • #1 in Germany
  • #10 in Europe
  • #46 Worldwide
     

The QS World University Ranking is based on the characteristics of universities. The main categories are the size, age, status (public, private, etc.), research and its intensity, and focus (categorization of faculty areas and programs) of the universities. These five main topics are then broken down into smaller subtopics in order to rank each university.

To find out further information about the 2023 ranking, please visit

the KIT website.

WirtschaftsWoche Ranking 2022

 

Source:

WirtschaftsWoche  

Ranking 2022 

  • The KIT reputation among HR managers remains high
  • #3 in Industrial Engineering
  • #4 in Mechanical Engineering
  • #4 in Computer Science
  • #5 in Electrical Engineering
  • #8 in Natural Sciences
     

the WirtschaftsWoche Ranking ranks German universities.

To find out further information about the ranking, pleace visit

the KIT website.  

Shanghai Ranking 2023

 

Source: Shanghai Ranking, 2023

  • Worldwide: 43th in Energy Sciences & Engineering
     

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the "Shanghai" ranking, evaluates research indicators and individual disciplines.

US News Best Global Universities 2022-23

 

Source:

US News Best Global Uni 2022-23 

  • Worldwide Physics: Rank 62
  • Worldwide Chemistry: Rank 70
  • Worldwide Materials Science: Rank 71
  • Worldwide Opitcs: Rank 78
  • Worldwide Engineering: Rank 124 

 

The US News ranks universities on 13 different criteria to measure academic research preformance and their global/regional reputation.

National Taiwan University (NTU) Ranking

 

Source: NTU Ranking, 2023 

  • In the Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences the KIT ranks first among the German universities
  • #301 worldwide in Engineering
  • #123 worldwide in Natural Sciences
  • 346 in the overall ranking of the 800 best universities in the world
     

The NTU Ranking is based on publication data in the natural sciences and in the engineering sciences.

To find out further information about the ranking, please visit the KIT website. 

EU-Multirank

 

Source: EU-Multirank, 2018

  • #1 in Germany in Knowledge Transfer: Granted Patents
  • #2 in Germany in Internationalization: International Academic Staff
  • Leading in Research worldwide
  • Leading in International Orientation worldwide

(Leading = better than average)
 

EU-Multirank, funded by the EU Commission, judges universities by their publications, third-party funding, number of post-docs, and more. They also break down subjects to give a more intensive look into the programs. This includes Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Production/Industrial Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, among others. U-Multirank covers universities worldwide by using a variety of criteria and subjects.

To find out further information about the ranking, please visit

the KIT website.

Nature Index

 

Source: Nature Index, 2022-23

  • Leads the Helmholtz Association to 11th place worldwide
     

The Nature Index tracks universities worldwide and their research outputs every year, tracked from February until the next year in January (October 2022 - 30 September 2023). They also look into the output in each field and group them by subject, which are organized by journal and then title.

To find out further information about the ranking, please visit

the Nature Index wesbite.

CHE University Ranking

 

Source: CHE Ranking 2017

  • Students are Highly Satisfied at KIT
  • Top in the groups "Support at the beginning of the studies" and "Teaching offers" in Germany
     

CHE University Ranking analyzes German universities about their studies, academic education, research, and student judgements in regards to the study conditions at their universities.

To find out further information about the ranking, pleace visit

the KIT website.