The design of EIT's academic programs is aimed at the fields of study that could play a significant, strategic role in the economic and social development of the region and the nation. EIT has developed an innovative program planning mechanism to create the unique characteristics of EIT's program portfolio centered around distinctive and cutting-edge disciplines and featuring cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, in the spirit of openness and innovation.

The program portfolio focuses on science, engineering, information technology and business management, supplemented by the selective fields of humanities and social sciences. These programs will form the building blocks of a new type of high-level research universities that EIT is designated to become.