In the association of the university with the Helmholtz large-scale research area, KIT enables an early integration of students in leading international research. The association also means that additional subjects and lecturers are available for courses, degree theses and doctoral study phases. Centres of excellence and numerous graduate programmes are further assets within this.

Students in the master's degree programme benefit in particular from the fact that research is carried out at KIT in a variety of individual research projects as well as in large coordinated collaborative research projects. Students involved in the coordinated projects work on challenging, complex and long-term physics questions.

Integration into numerous international research cooperations, with opportunities to complete final theses. Internships at international research institutions (e.g. CERN), international excursions. The exclusively English-language Master's degree programmes contribute significantly to internationalisation. Students are involved in international research cooperations of the work groups, the proportion of students of a class who take advantage of this option for exchange is about 50 percent.

KTH Stockholm, Schweden; University of Oslo, Norwegen; The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso; University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgarien; Aalto University, Finnland; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Frankreich; Université Grenoble Alpes, Frankreich; Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7, Frankreich; Université de Strasbourg, Frankreich; Trinity College Dublin, Irland; Università degli studi di Torino, Italien; Kaunas University of Technology, Litauen; Radboud University, Niederlande

In addition to the usual extensive lecture halls, seminar rooms and practical training areas, including a separate specialist library for physics with ample student workstations, the following are also worth mentioning: an extensive experimental collection which is state-of-the-art but also has a great tradition (H. Hertz); its own building for practical training, which houses all practical courses in physics on site; a large number of seminar rooms dedicated to the faculty; extensive student workspaces; integration of the Helmholtz large-scale research area in teaching.

The KIT is both a university and a research centre of the Helmholtz Association. In this context, scientists from the faculty participate in the Helmholtz Association's research areas of matter, information, earth and environment and energy. Clusters of Excellence, Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs) and joint projects of the BMBF make innovative, demanding, complex and long-term research projects possible, often beyond the boundaries of their respective disciplines.

Diversity and sustainability are crucial success factors for excellence in research and teaching at the KIT. The KIT conducts cutting-edge research on topics relating to climate protection and sustainable living and development. The Faculty of Physics plays a very significant role here with contributions on climate protection, matter and energy. Sustainability, diversity and equal opportunities are lived out at the KIT as a thread throughout the organisation and in academic life and of the course of studies and are underpinned by numerous structural measures.