 KIT is among the leading technical universities in Germany and Europe and established the first German faculty for computer science in 1972. 
, six Nobel laureates are affiliated with KIT.The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is well known for many inventors and entrepreneurs who studied or taught there, including Heinrich Hertz, Karl Friedrich Benz and the founders of SAP SE.The University of Karlsruhe was founded as a polytechnical school () on 7 October 1825.