Inter-disciplinary, fundamental orientation, application related, practical relevance, research related, reference, high flexibility, continuous adaptation to the requirements of industry and science; Sound basis in Mathematics and Physics, broad foundation training in all fields of Mechatronics and Information Technology and information Engineering as the basis for subsequent specialisation.; focus on transition to the Master´s degree programme without loss of time. Specialisations can be chosen from 8 broadly based specialisations in the Master’s programme.

A large number of international cooperation partners have started from renowned research institutes and universities such as MIT (USA); AIST (Japan); Technion (Israel), NUS (Singapore), INP (Grenoble), ESIEE (Paris), University of Southampton, Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid) and industrial companies such as ABB, Synopsis, Nokia, Mitsubishi Electric, Sony, Daimler, Siemens, Bosch, EADS.

First-class equipment and state-of-the-art IT facilities in the labs for teaching and research. The facilities also include large-scale equipment which can be used for final theses. In addition to lecture halls fully equipped with media technology for lectures and exercises in large and small student groups, there are also numerous spaces available for tutorials and exercises in small groups.

A variety of current research topics from all fields of mechatronics and information engineering. This includes, among other things: Numerous partnerships with industrial companies; Collaboration in Collaborative Research Centres and research training groups; Close connection between the university area and the major research area.

KIT IT start-up focus with entrepreneurship instruction, intensive coaching Startup Catalyst - upCAT, start-up founder culture on campus, start-up-related public relations, Wissensaufbau Technologietransfer - WaTT, Shared Service und Regelwerke – SSR, Leveraged Crowdfunding – LCF; KIT Innovation gGmbh: Knowledge and tech transfer, entrepreneurship, innovation culture and networking; NEULAND – Innovation Day at KIT

KIT offers a variety of technologically oriented student university groups that provide students in mechatronics and information engineering an opportunity to put course content to practical use. Students can also work on very challenging projects here, for example in the university racing series, ‘Formula Student KA-RaceIng’.