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Silesian University of Technology

Politechnika Śląska
Latin: Silesia Universitas Technologica
Type	Public
Established	May 24, 1945 (1945-05-24)
Rector	Professor Arkadiusz Mężyk
Students	15,790 (12.2023)
Location	Gliwice, Silesia, Poland
Campus	Urban campuses in 3 cities
Website	www.polsl.pl/en

The Silesian University of Technology (Polish name: Politechnika Śląska; Polish pronunciation: [pɔliˈtɛxɲika ˈɕlɔ̃ska]) is a university located in the Polish province of Silesia, with most of its facilities in the city of Gliwice. It was founded in 1945 by Polish professors of the Lwow Polytechnic, who were forced to leave their native city and move to the Recovered Territories (see also Kresy). In 2023, the prestigious Perspektywy Foundation ranked it as the 6th best university of technology and the 12th overall in Poland.

Organization

Silesian University of Technology is organized into 13 faculties and 1 research institute:

• Faculty of Architecture,
• Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science,
• Faculty of Civil Engineering,
• Faculty of Chemistry,
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
• Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation,
• Faculty of Biomedical Engineering
• Faculty of Materials Engineering,
• Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering,
• Faculty of Applied Mathematics,
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
• Faculty of Organization and Management,
• Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering,
• Institute of Physics - Centre for Science and Education

Ten of these are situated in Gliwice, two in Katowice and two in Zabrze.

Affiliations

The university is affiliated with the following organizations:

• European University Association (EUA)
• European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI)
• The Innovation Cluster for Entrepreneurship Education of the Erasmus+ Programme
• Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM)
• Trans-European Mobility Programme for University Studies (TEMPUS)
• Erasmus Programme which evolved into the Socrates programme
• Leonardo da Vinci programme
• Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS)
• Index Copernicus
• European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
• The EUREKA intergovernmental organization for research and development funding and coordination

References

1. "Higher education in the 2023/24 academic year" (in Polish). Statistics Poland. Retrieved 2024-06-30.
2. "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
3. "University Ranking Perspektywy 2023".
4. "University Ranking Perspektywy 2023".
5. "Faculties and Institutes". Silesian University of Technology. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
6. "World University Rankings". 20 August 2019.

External links

• Silesian University of Technology homepage
• Official website (polish version)

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