NIT has a cosmopolitan student body, drawing its students from around 58 countries in all five continents. Both students and graduates rate not only the quality of the double degree program but also the international character of the NIT program as outstanding.

With numerous international lecturers and about 81,5 percent of the students coming from outside Germany to live with their fellow-students in the NIT building, the NIT offers a setting where students acquire a high measure of intercultural competence.