Poznan University of Technology: Courses, Admission, Cost

Officially founded in 1955, Poznan University of Technology is situated in Pozna, Poland. It was originated from the State School of Mechanical Engineering that was founded in the year 1919. A second department was started in 1929 and it was renamed to the Higher State School of Machinery and Electrotechnics. Later in 1945, the school was granted the status of a Higher Engineering School became a university in 1955.

The university is a self-governing state institution that offers education through its ten faculties. It provides Bachelor, Master and Doctorate programs in English and Polish language. With an active and highly professional team of 13 hundred academic staff members, the university provides academic facilities to about 21,000 students. The university is home to a large number of international students coming from 60 different nations.

It offers over 100 specializations within its 30 areas of study. Students can choose from Architecture, Electrical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications, Computing, Engineering Management, Mechanical Engineering and Management, Machines and Transportation, and Technical Physics. It offers around fifty post-graduate programs and several workshops to help students in enhancing their technical knowledge.

Apart from academic facilities, the university allows students to indulge in a number of things. The university maintains several organizations and student circles. It houses one of the oldest radio stations namely Afera 98.6 MHz. Apart from this, it has a university magazine and television program. It maintains an award-winning library that houses over 8 lakh library items. Students can find a broad variety of technical topics and licensed electronic resources at the library. Other than this, there is a Centre of Languages and Communication that works in collaboration with faculties to promote learning foreign languages.

Apart from this, the university is home to a publishing house that publishes educational literature, academic works and other types of printed materials, such as catalogs, information leaflets, etc. To provide sports facilities, it maintains a sports club which is also the biggest student organization at the institution. There are about 36 sports sections at the university that serves around 1,500 students regularly. In terms of a number of members, it is the second-largest university sports club in the country.

Poznan University of Technology has proudly graduated with a number of scientists, politicians, and great leaders. Its alumni also include Polish Nobel Prize winners. The university has graduates who work with leading organizations like Microsoft Corporation. Some of the known alumni include Pawe? Arndt (politician), Aleksander Doba (explorer and traveler), Jacek B?a?ewicz (computer scientist), Roman S?owi?ski (computer scientist), Waldy Dzikowski (politician) and Jan W^glarz(computer scientist).