Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT (reviews)

As an EE Bachelor Student (called Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) at the KIT I can advise you to think twice before applying here. First off the things the Uni and Faculty don’t let you know is how unorganized the entire system of the University is, especially in this studies. FORGET ANY SORT OF VACATION. Only Holidays are given as required by law but if you expect to have a summer or winter or spring break then you are at the wrong place. It is a full time job to study here, until now (6 Semesters) I have gotten maximum 3 weeks/year vacation from exams and lectures. Would not recommend it for any foreign/international students. Other than that the exams in the Corona times were both poorly managed and also made more difficult in order to give the students the “elite” experience of University in pandemic times. The Pros for this Uni are that everyone here is suffering together and that the library used to be open 24/7 before the pandemic, as well as the ability to have some variety in courses to choose from which is to be expected from any mid to high tier University.

I love how I can choose basically half of my bachelor’s courses. I don’t know if it’s the same for every field of study or similar in other universities, but I can basically study whatever I want if it just has a little importance to the field of computer science.

What you will immediately notice while studying in Karlsruhe is the sheer amount of research that is done at the university. Walk through an institute and you’ll find a seemingly endless amount of bachelor thesis topics and master thesis topics. Furthermore KIT supports student development with free language courses for students, several offerings to learn soft skills to complement the hard skill knowledge you gain.

Computer Science at the KIT is very good as far as i can tell, only about two third of the courses are mandatory while the rest is completely customizable from different directions of computer science like kognitive systems, security or logic.__The mandatory courses all felt significant so I fully understand why they wouldn’t want to make those optional. __I also love the campus which is small enough to get everywhere very well and close to a park ehich is awesome during summer. It’s also close to the city centre, so it’s easily reachalbe by tram and bike equally.