Mission The structure of KIT is tailored to its objectives in research, education, and innovation. It supports flexible, synergy-based cooperation beyond disciplines, organizations, and hierarchies. Efficient services are rendered to support KIT employees and members in their work.
Young people are our future. Reliable offers and career options excellently support KIT’s young scientists and professionals in their professional and personal development.
Description The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, briefly referred to as KIT, was established by the merger of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH and the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) on October 01, 2009. KIT combines the tasks of a university of the state of Baden-Württemberg with those of a research center of the Helmholtz Association in the areas of research, teaching, and innovation.
The KIT merger represents the consistent continuation of a long-standing close cooperation of two research and education institutions rich in tradition. The University of Karlsruhe was founded in 1825 as a Polytechnical School and has developed to a modern location of research and education in natural sciences, engineering, economics, social sciences, and the humanities, which is organized in eleven departments.
KIT has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 394 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The KIT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).
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Overall, 85% of employees would recommend working at KIT to a friend. This is based on 935 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
90% of job seekers rate their interview experience at KIT as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at KIT.