KIT Rankings

Source: QS World University Rankings by Subject: Mechanical Engineering 2025

• #3 in Germany
• #16 in Europe
• #45 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 2025 ranking, please visit the KIT website.

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.

Source: QS World University Rankings by Subject: Engineering 2024

• #3 in Germany
• #17 in Europe
• #37 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 2024 ranking, please visit the KIT website.

Source: EngiRank Institutional Rankings 2023

• #7 in Europe

The European Engineering Studies Ranking or EngiRank was launched in November 2023 to provide students and industy a comprehensive, focused ranking of engineering schools within the EU. To find out more about these rankings and their methodology visit the EngiRank website.

• #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 2022 ranking, please visit the KIT website.

• Germany: #3 country to study abroad in Europe
• Germany: #2 best study abroad country in Europe to access higher quality teaching
• Germany: #6 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.

Source: educations.com Rankings, 2023

• Germany: 1st in Energy Sciences
• Worldwide: 35th in Energy Sciences
• Worldwide: Top 100 in Engineering Sciences (including Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Environmental Sciences...) and Natural Sciences (Physics and Chemistry)

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

To find out further information about the ranking, please visit

the KIT website.

Source: Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking 2020

• Engineering: Rank 124

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

Source: US News Best Global Uni 2012-2023

• In the Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences the KIT ranks first among the German universities
• #124 worldwide in Engineering
• #67 worldwide in Natural Sciences
• 228 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.

Source: NTU Ranking, 2019

• The KIT reputation among HR managers remains high
• Top group in all subjects relating to engineering sciences
• #4 in Germany for Mechanical Engineering
• #4 in Germany for Informatics

The WirtschaftsWoche Ranking ranks German universities.

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

Source: WirtschaftsWoche Ranking 2022

• #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.

Source: EU-Multirank, 2018

• 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.

Source: CHE Ranking 2017

• Leads the Helmholtz Association to 8th place worldwide

The Nature Index tracks universities worldwide and their research outputs every year, tracked from February until the next year in January (February 2016 - 31 January 2017). 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.