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, fundamentals training in all fields of mechatronics and information technology as the basis for later specialisation; geared towards a transition to the master's degree programme without losing time.

Interdisciplinarity, application relevance, practical relevance, research relevance, high flexibility, constant adaptation to requirements from business and science; There are eight broad areas of specialisation available.

A large number of international cooperation partners starting 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 the lecture halls for large and small lectures and exercises, which are fully equipped with media technology, there are also numerous rooms for tutorials and small group exercises.

A variety of current research topics from all fields of mechatronics and information engineering. These include: Numerous partnerships with industrial companies; Collaboration in Collaborative Research Centres and Research Training Groups; Close connection between the university and large-scale research.

KIT offers a variety of technically oriented student university groups that give students the opportunity to put what they learn in their studies into practice. Here, students can also work on very demanding projects, for example in the university racing sport Formula Student KA-RaceIng. There is a supplementary course on Sustainable Development, which provides an overview of the fields of current sustainability research, their fundamentals and methods. Equal opportunities and diversity management measures, equal opportunities projects.